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Trek Bicycle announced today that it has reached an agreement with the current owner of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:RadioShack team, Leopard SA, to take ov⛎er its WorldTour l🐼icense and ownership of the squad in 2014.

The company stated that it "plans to conserve a large part of the existing roster" and to keep general manager Luca Guercilena. The current st🦄ructure will remain in place through the end of the season.

"Trek is currently engaged in negotiations with several marquee athletes that will be announced shortly," the press release stated, adding that the group is currently seek♚ing sponsors.

"We're thrilled to be able to rea🎃ch this agreement with Leopard," Trek VP Joe Vadeboncoeur said. "The team has established a great foundation of staff and athletes."

The🥀 team's future was uncertain in March, when RadioShack announced it would not renew its partnership with the team. Since then, rumours had circulated concerning financial issues in the team, and former manager Johan Bruyneel took current team owner Flavio Becca to cour♋t to get payment on 900,000 Euros owed on a 1.5 million Euro loan he gave Becca to keep the team afloat last year.

Team members 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:complained earlier this month that their wages had not been paid on time.

It was previously reported that Becca was looking to sell the WorldTour license, but as late as this morning, he denied to Cyclingnews that the license had been sold.

The new team will reportedly be built around Fabian Cancellara and Andy Schleck, with reinforcements for the Classics squad to back the Ronde van Vlaandereജn and Paris-Roubaix champion, but Trek was vague about its goals, only stating that its 𒆙"riders' nationalities represent our major markets and can become an army of ambassadors at events across the world".

Becca stated in the press release that 👍he is "proud to hand over this project to the people at Trek Bicycle, who have been a very dependable and loyal partner over the past three years".

"When we started in the summer of 2010 we had a blank canvas in our hands, a puzzle. Now, three seasons later, we have a team that has won some😼 of the biggest races of cycling with Fabian Cancellara and put two Schleck brothers❀ from Luxembourg together on the podium of the Tour de France.

"I am also especially pleased to have launched the🧸 professional career of a young talented rider like Bob Jungels and that the team has become a major player in professional cycling. I believe cycling has entered a new era, in which a bike manufacturer like Trek Bicycle takes on full ownership of a team. I have taken a lot of pleasure in running this project and I wish the team and all its members a bright future."