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Team NetApp was relieved and happy to hear Tuesday afternoon that it would be riding its first grand tour in 2012.  The German Professional Continental team 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:received one of four wildcard🤪 invitations to the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Giro d'Italia.

Team manager Ralph Denk told Cyclingnews that he wasn't surprised that it worked out.  “I have believed in it all along.  We have been working hard for this🥀 for half a year.”

He said that “it was a difficult application process.  The standards were very high and the application very comprehensive.  I am happy that RCS Sport had theඣ ಞcourage to invite a young German team.

“I want to thank t💖hem for giving a boost to German cycling.”

Now the work begins.  “Tomorrow we start our training camp on Mallorca.  We will have our first talk🐼s with the riders who come into consi😼deration to ride the Giro, and we will start our planning.”

Once at the Giro in May, the team hopes to “in any case offer attractive cycling.  168澳洲5最新开奖结⛦果:We will go with Leo♏ König as our captain, maybe he can do something in the GC,“ Denk told Cyclingnews.

“And we certainly wa꧂nt to give something back to thꩲe organizers, to justify our invitation.”