Team RadioShack
Team RadioShack were a professional road bicycle racing team, with RadioShack as the title sponsor, the creation of which was announced on July 23, 2009. Lance Armstrong co-owned and led the team, which raced in the Grand Tours and the UCI ProTour. The team was managed by Capital Sports and Entertainment, an Austin, Texas sports and event management group that also manages the Trek-Livestrong U23 development cycling team and that ran the former Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team.[2]
Johan Bruyneel was Team RadioShack's initial overall manager[3] and Dirk Demol is the directeur sportif.[4][5] Former Discovery Channel cyclists Viatcheslav Ekimov from Russia and José Azevedo from Portugal was also part of the managerial squad.[3][6] Armstrong said that the team will promote the Livestrong anti-cancer campaigns of his Lance Armstrong Foundation, and will also be sponsored by Trek Bicycle Corporation, SRAM Corporation and Nike, Inc. sportswear.[7][8][9]
The team ceased to exist in its current structure from the end of the 2011 season as Radioshack returned their World Tour Licence to the UCI. Their two main sponsors, Radioshack and Nissan have moved their sponsorship to Team Leopard Trek. Sporting Director Johann Bruyneel will move to the newly named Radioshack-Nissan team along with several of the current Radioshack riders. Effectively a merge there is some debate between the two teams as to the nature of the agreement. Radioshack have described it as a merge, [10] whilst, Flavio Becca, owner of Leopard Trek stated that his team was continuing, and simply taking over Radioshacks sponsors, and some of their riders.[11] The new team is registered in Luxembourg with the UCI.
2010 season
On November 25, 2009, The UCI ProTour Council (UPTC) announced that the team was successfully registered for the 2010 season [12] The team's final 2010 team roster includes 26 riders from 16 countries,[3] after Japanese rider Fumiyuki Beppu joined in February.[13][14] Demol and twelve of the riders were previously with the Kazakh team Astana in the UCI ProTour, including eight of the team's nine riders on the winning team in the 2009 Tour de France. In April 2010 Li Fuyu was suspended by the team after failing a doping test.[15]
The team had planned on racing in the 2010 Tour de France and the 2010 Vuelta a España, among other races, but it controversially was not invited to the Vuelta.[16] Team RadioShack went on to achieve the team victory of the 2010 Tour de France, while leading the team classification after about half its stages. It was the second time that an American team had won the team classification, preceded by Discovery Channel in 2007. After the Tour de France, the team promoted Taylor Phinney and Jesse Sergent from the Trek-Livestrong U23 team and Clinton Avery from the PWS Eijssen team to the RadioShack roster as "stagiaires" ("trainees" in French) for the remainder of the season.[17]
National Championships
- 2010
- USA Road Race Ben King*
- USA Time Trial Taylor Phinney*
- 2011
- Japan Road Race Fumiyuki Beppu
- Japan Time Trial Fumiyuki Beppu
- USA Road Race Matthew Busche
- Slovenia Time Trial Janez Brajkovič
- Portugal Time Trial Nelson Oliveira
2011 season
2011 team roster
|
Rider |
Date of birth |
| Fumiyuki Beppu (JPN) |
April 10, 1983 (1983-04-10) (age 28) |
| Sam Bewley (NZL) |
July 22, 1987 (1987-07-22) (age 24) |
| Janez Brajkovič (SLO) |
December 18, 1983 (1983-12-18) (age 28) |
| Matthew Busche (USA) |
May 9, 1985 (1985-05-09) (age 26) |
| Manuel Cardoso (POR) |
April 7, 1983 (1983-04-07) (age 28) |
| Philip Deignan (IRE) |
September 7, 1983 (1983-09-07) (age 28) |
| Ben Hermans (BEL) |
June 8, 1986 (1986-06-08) (age 25) |
| Chris Horner (USA) |
November 10, 1971 (1971-11-10) (age 40) |
| Robert Hunter (RSA) |
April 22, 1977 (1977-04-22) (age 34) |
| Ben King (USA) |
March 22, 1989 (1989-03-22) (age 22) |
| Andreas Klöden (GER) |
June 22, 1975 (1975-06-22) (age 36) |
| Michał Kwiatkowski (POL) |
June 2, 1990 (1990-06-02) (age 21) |
| Markel Irizar (ESP) |
February 5, 1980 (1980-02-05) (age 32) |
| Levi Leipheimer (USA) |
October 24, 1973 (1973-10-24) (age 38) |
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|
Rider |
Date of birth |
| Geoffroy Lequatre (FRA) |
June 30, 1981 (1981-06-30) (age 30) |
| Tiago Machado (POR) |
October 18, 1985 (1985-10-18) (age 26) |
| Jason McCartney (USA) |
September 3, 1973 (1973-09-03) (age 38) |
| Robbie McEwen (AUS) |
June 24, 1972 (1972-06-24) (age 39) |
| Dmitriy Muravyev (KAZ) |
November 2, 1979 (1979-11-02) (age 32) |
| Nelson Oliveira (POR) |
March 6, 1989 (1989-03-06) (age 23) |
| Sérgio Paulinho (POR) |
March 26, 1980 (1980-03-26) (age 31) |
| Yaroslav Popovych (UKR) |
January 4, 1980 (1980-01-04) (age 32) |
| Grégory Rast (SUI) |
January 17, 1980 (1980-01-17) (age 32) |
| Sébastien Rosseler (BEL) |
July 15, 1981 (1981-07-15) (age 30) |
| Ivan Rovny (RUS) |
September 30, 1987 (1987-09-30) (age 24) |
| Bjørn Selander (USA) |
January 28, 1988 (1988-01-28) (age 24) |
| Jesse Sergent (NZL) |
July 8, 1988 (1988-07-08) (age 23) |
| Haimar Zubeldia (ESP) |
April 1, 1977 (1977-04-01) (age 34) |
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2011 Trek-Livestrong U23 team roster
|
Rider |
Date of birth |
| Josh Atkins (NZL) |
June 28, 1992 (1992-06-28) (age 19) |
| George Bennett (NZL) |
April 7, 1990 (1990-04-07) (age 21) |
| Ian Boswell (USA) |
February 7, 1991 (1991-02-07) (age 21) |
| Nathan Brown (USA) |
July 7, 1991 (1991-07-07) (age 20) |
| Lawson Craddock (USA) |
February 20, 1992 (1992-02-20) (age 20) |
| Joe Dombrowski (USA) |
May 12, 1991 (1991-05-12) (age 20) |
| Ryan Eastman (USA) |
July 28, 1992 (1992-07-28) (age 19) |
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|
Rider |
Date of birth |
| Robin Eckmann (GER) |
May 6, 1992 (1992-05-06) (age 19) |
| Carter Jones (USA) |
February 27, 1989 (1989-02-27) (age 23) |
| Joe Lewis (AUS) |
January 13, 1989 (1989-01-13) (age 23) |
| Gavin Mannion (USA) |
August 24, 1991 (1991-08-24) (age 20) |
| Dale Parker (AUS) |
May 12, 1992 (1992-05-12) (age 19) |
| Michael Vink (NZL) |
November 22, 1991 (1991-11-22) (age 20) |
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- ^ Skil-Shimano terminates contract with Beppu
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- ^ Press Release: Team Manager Johan Bruyneel Stunned over Team RadioShack's Non-Invite to the Vuelta, 14 June 2010, http://www.livestrong.com/teamradioshack/news_press-release-team-manager-johan-bruyneel-stunned-over-team-radioshack-u2019s-non-invite-vuelta/, retrieved 2010-06-16
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