Team information | |
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Registered | United Kingdom |
Founded | 2001 |
Disbanded | 2009 |
Discipline(s) | Road |
Status | UCI Continental |
Key personnel | |
General manager | Nick Collins |
Team manager(s) | Rudi Dubois |
Team name history | |
2001–2003 2004 2005 2006–2007 2008 2009 | Team Down Under Team cyclingnews.com-Down Under Team Cyclingnews.com Fondriest DFL-Cyclingnews–Litespeed Pedaltech–Cyclingnews–Jako Cinelli–Down Under |
Team Cyclingnews.com–Down Under was a British professional cycling team that rode UCI Continental Circuits races. The leader for 2007 was Belgian Nico Mattan and the squad included 2006 British champion, Hamish Haynes. Eric Vanderaerden was a directeur sportif. [1]
In 2008 it wanted to become a professional continental team and signed Steffen Wesemann [2] and Bas Giling. [3] It also had an agreement with Marc Lotz but Pedaltech signed two British professionals instead. [4]
The UCI did not give the team the professional continental licence. [5] Potential sponsors pulled out, including Johan Museeuw, the bike maker. [6] and Cyclingnews.com. Then the team manager, who was its owner, faked having cancer and could not run the team. [7] It collapsed. [8] [9]
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