BMC Pro Cycling Team 2011

USA team BMC will compete in the 2011 UCI Pro Tour.

Sponsors: BMC, Hincapie jersey, Shimano Dura Ace Di2

Manager général:
Directeurs Sportifs:
LELANGUE John (Team Manager)
SAYERS Mike (Ass. Team Manager)
SCIANDRI Maximilian (Ass. Team Manager)
BALDATO Fabio (Ass. Team Manager)
VERBRUGGHE Rik (Ass. Team Manager)

The 2011 Team 25 racers are:
BALLAN Alessandro (ITA) 1979
BARTON Chris (USA) 1988
BEYER Chad (USA) 1986
BOOKWALTER Brent (USA) 1984
BURGHARDT Marcus (GER) 1983
BUTLER Chris (USA) 1988
EIJSSEN Yannick (BEL) 1989
EVANS Cadel (AUS) 1977
FRANK Mathias (SUI) 1986
HINCAPIE George (USA) 1973
KOHLER Martin (SUI) 1985
KRISTOFF Alexander (NOR) 1987
KROON Karsten (NED) 1976
LOUDER Jeff (USA) 1977
MOINARD Amaël (FRA) 1982
MORABITO Steve (SUI) 1983
MURPHY John (USA) 1984
NYDAM Scott (USA) 1977
PHINNEY Taylor (USA) 1990
QUINZIATO Manuel (ITA) 1979
ROE Thimothy (AUS) 1989
SANTAMBROGIO Mauro (ITA) 1984
SANTAROMITA Ivan (ITA) 1984
SCHÄR Michael (SUI) 1986
TSCHOPP Johann (SUI) 1982
VAN AVERMAET Greg (BEL) 1985
WYSS Danilo (SUI) 1985
ZAHNER Simon (SUI) 1983

Team Katusha Cycling Team 2011

Russia team Katusha will compete in the 2011 UCI Pro Tour.

Sponsors: Focus, Sram, Vision, SMS Santini, FSA parts, Prologo saddle.

Manager général:
Directeurs Sportifs: PARSANI Serge (Team Manager)
COZZI Claudio (Ass. Team Manager)
BRAECKEVELT Joseph (Ass. Team Manager)
LEYSEN Bart (Ass. Team Manager)
KONYCHEV Dmitri (Ass. Team Manager)
MIKHAILOV Guennadi (Ass. Team Manager)

The 2011 Team racers are:
Arkimedes Arguelyes (RUS) 1988
Di Luca Danilo (ITA) 1976
Giampaolo Caruso (ITA) 1980
BRUTT Pavel (RUS) 1982
CARUSO Giampaolo (ITA) 1980
GALIMZYANOV Denis (RUS) 1987
GUSEV Vladimir (RUS) 1982
HORRACH RIPPOLL Joan (ESP) 1974
HOSTE Leif (BEL) 1977
IGNATIEV Mikhail (RUS) 1985
IVANOV Serguei (RUS) 1975
KARPETS Vladimir (RUS) 1980
KOLOBNEV Alexandr (RUS) 1981
KRITSKIY Timofey (RUS) 1987
KUSCHYNSKI Aleksandr (BLR) 1979
LEIF Hoste (BEL) 1977
LOSADA ALGUACIL Alberto (ESP) 1982
MORENO FERNANDEZ Daniel (ESP) 1981
OVECHKIN Artem (RUS) 1986
PAOLINI Luca (ITA) 1977
PLIUSCHIN Alexandr (MDA) 1987
POZZATO Filippo (ITA) 1981
RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin (ESP) 1979
SILIN Egor (RUS) 1988
TROFIMOV Yury (RUS) 1984
TRUSSOV Nikolai (RUS) 1985
VANDENBERGH Stijn (BEL) 1984
VANTOMME Maxime (BEL) 1986
VORGANOV Eduard (RUS) 1982

Team bike is Focus, equipped with Sram Red groupset, FSA vision wheels

Team website: katushateam.com

2011 UCI Pro Tour Teams and what it means for us?

UCI announced which are the 18 teams that will be able to participate at the 2011 UCI Pro Tour.

This list is very important in many ways, of course regarding the UCI ranking (see 2011 UCI Pro Tour calendar here), but also which teams can already know which ones can participate at the 3 greatest Tours, but also which cycling jerseys will be good to stock for retailers, etc...

Now the result already hint at which of the 22 teams will be participating at the Tour de France 2011.

See details below list.

1- Team Leopard - Trek (LUX) / 2011-2014
2- BMC Racing Team (USA) / 2011-2014
3- Garmin-Cervélo (USA)
4- Euskaltel-Euskadi (ESP) / 2011-2012
5- Katusha (RUS)
6- HTC-Highroad (USA) / 2011-2014
7- Lampre-ISD (ITA)
8- Liquigas-Cannondale (ITA) / 2011-2014
9- Omega Pharma-Lotto (BEL)
10- Quick Step Cycling Team (BEL)
11- Movistar Team (ESP) / 2011-2013
12- Rabobank Cycling Team (NED)
13- Pro Team Astana (KAZ) / 2011-2013
14- Saxo Bank SunGard (DEN)
15- Sky ProCycling (GBR)
16- Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team (NED) / 2011-2013
17- Team RadioShack (USA)
18- AG2R (FRA)

Now, how the licence to participate at the Pro Tour is calculated?
UCI takes in account the best performance of the top 15 riders of any teams over the previous 2 seasons, but also the team financial status and conditions. So it is NOT only riders performance, it is also teams performance and situation.

The N.1 team is the one that still has no official name or sponsor (great marketing by the way!), the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project which includes the Schleck brothers and some other top riders.

If you follow the races, you'll know that 22 teams can participate at the prestigious Tour de France race.
So, 4 teams have to perform their best to receive an invitation to the race.
But the fairness is not equal to all.
You see, there are 5 pro French Teams, and now if you look at the list above, you can see there is only one team which can officially enter the Tour de France 2011 race.

You may expect that 3 other french teams will receive an invitation to the Tour 2011, so it leave only 1 invitation left for an international team to get his ticket for the TDF 2011.
Geox-TMC (Sastre, Menchov...) got the most potential to be in the Tour De France 2011.

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