Saturday, December 8, 2007

An American Pro Tour Team?


Team High Road has risen out of the ashes after the destruction of T Mobile. How Ironic that with the Death of Discovery, T Mobile, once the definitive German Team is now an American Controlled team? While the license is still German, The owner, Bob Stapleton, is American. Many of the riders are either American or British. The language spoken on the team is english. With discovery and T mobile's death, America has two teams with pro tour strength in Slipstream and Team High Road. Now, I am not some sort of nutty Cycling Patriot. I root for CSC and love to see little Euskatel do well. I loved to see Barloworld come into the tour after not getting a protour license and wipe the map with all the big budget teams. It is, however, kinda cool to see protour teams based in this country. It means that our Home tours will have a better level of racing and that big names will be riding in California, Missouri, and Georgia. This can only be good for the sport in this country.

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