Defending Vuelta Ciclista al Pais 🏅Vasco champion Chris Horner (RadioShack) on the decisive Alto de la Antigua ascent. (Image credit: Rafael Gómez Alonso)
Team 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:RadioShack will go to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Amgen Tour of California (May 15-22) with the clear ambition of winning the overall classification. An in form 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Horner will join three time winner Levi Leipheimer to make a formidable leadership duo. Since the beginning of the season the Tou🍸r of California has been one of their big objectives and both riders are ready for the challenge. They will be surrounded by a strong group of r☂iders combining a mixture of experience and young talent.
"There is no doubt that this is ౠone of our biggest events of the 𝔍year," said Team Manager Johan Bruyneel.
"We are an American registered team. Our biggest sponsors are American. So this race is important to our sඣponsors and therefore important to the team.
"This race suit༺s him very well and this year even more than the previous ones. The race route has become harder; we now have two mountaintop꧋ finishes, and then there is the time trial in Solvang. Levi has never lost there. Chris Horner will be our perfect alternative. Thanks to his performances earlier this year in Catalunya and the Basque Country he deserves the co-leadership.
"Chris never disappoints us. Age doesn't seem to have an impact on him. In fact like a fine win he only se🦩ems to 💝improve," the Radioshack team manager joked.
Bruyneel is all too aware however that 2011 edition of the Amgen Tour of California will be no pushover despite fielding ജone of the strongest team lineup𝓰s.
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"Every year the teams are sending better riders🌼 to this race. Andy Schleck will be there - and with the ambition to win, and then there are the other American teams. Garmin-Cervélo and HTC-Highroad꧂ are as keen as we are to take the victory and don't forget BMC.
Nonethelꦗess the Belgian was optimistic about the team’s chances.
We've won the Tour of California 3 outꦚ of 5 times. Hopefully we'll make it 4 out of 6. We will fight fo𒉰r it," assured Johan Bruyneel.
