This will be go🧜od: Rohan Dennis gives the thumbs-up for Australia prior to racing in Geelo𒉰ng. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)
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The crowd in Buniny﷽ong celebrate with Darren Lapthorne🍃 (Image credit: Shane Goss)
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Clinton Avery winning in 2007 (Image credit: Michael Jacques)
The Pegasus Sports💧 team today announced the signing of Australians Rohan Denis and Darren Lapthorne and New Zealander Clinton Robert Avery to the squad for 2011.
Denis, 20, comes from Team ༒Jayco – Skins as the U23 time trial national champion and world champion ♍in the team pursuit. He also claimed the overall victory and two stages at the Tour of Geelong.
Avery, 2ꩲ2, rode this season as a trainee for Team RadioShack. A former national mountain bike champion in cross-country, he has two U23 titles on the road. His victories this year include the Vlaamse Pijl Hare🐟lbeke as well as the GP Stad Roeselare.
Lapthorne, 27, was the 2007 national༺ roa꧑d champion. He rode the past two seasons with Rapha Condor.
The trio will join veterans💧 Robbie McEwen and Robbie Hunter on the new squad, w꧒hich will race at the Professional Continental level after being turned down for a top-tier ProTeams license by the UCI.
"I'm excited to welcome these three emerging talents to the Pegasus team," said Pegasus Sports CEO Chris White. "Each brings with him a special quality and lots of promise, so I'm looking forw🍷ar💮d to seeing these guys develop to their full potential. I know that our supportive team environment is the right place for this to happen."
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