of MOSCOW, 18 January - R-sports, Veronika Gibadiyeva . World round-2016 in highway cycling which in a year considerable changes wait, on Tuesday by tradition will open a multi-day race" Round Down Ander ".
B 2017 the International union of cyclists (UCI) intends to carry out reforms which will affect including a calendar of races. While UCI cannot agree with the organizer of the most known of them - the Amaury Sport Organisation company which opposed reforms and declared intention to bring the races out of a calendar of World round, having taken positions a division below. It is a question of a number of "monuments", including "Liege – Baston – Liege" and "Paris - Rube", and also "Tour de France". Many experts are sure that the situation will be resolved on a season-2016 course for now World round starts in a habitual format in Australia where the first points in its rating and the World rating - the next innovation of UCI will be played.
of the Ambition of "Katyusha"
With new ambitions there begins a season Russian "Katyusha"." The main goal - to become the best team of World round. Of what it consists: on spring "classics" at us a smart link Alexander Christoff , then "Dzhiro D' Italy" where we plan Ilnur Zakarin as the leader. The following stage - "Tour de France" where we expose the greatest possible, strongest structure in which will be Juergen van den Brook, both Purito (Joachim Rodriguez), and Christoff", - was declared by the general manager of the team Vyacheslav Ekimov.
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Bicycle racers of the Katyusha team.
besides, "Katyusha" expects to act more successfully in team staggered start races because of which it in last season did not manage to become the best in World round. Well and, certainly, one of the main tasks of team - successful performance at the Olympic Games. It is planned that the leader of "Katyusha" Zakarin will be one of with - captains of Russian national team.
of Tinkoff dreams of a victory on "Tour de France"
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structure and form Presentation for a season-2016 of the Russian Tinkoff cycle team. , passed of "Katyusha" in other Russian team Tinkoff can become p>
the Second with - the captain of the national team at the Games-2016 . By the way, 2016 becomes the last for her owner Oleg Tinkov in cycling. The Russian businessman decided to sell team.
"The last season we want to finish high, to win everything that it is possible to win. To make it beautiful. There is a wish that (Peter) Sagan won at least one "classics". It would be desirable that at last I on the overcoat pinned the last medal — a victory on "Tour de France", - he admitted.
the Captain on "Tura" Tinkoff will have a Spaniard Alberto Contador for whom this season can become the last in career. The season-2016 for Tinkoff will be special also because in this team there will be an "iridescent" undershirt - in it at least to the following World Cup there will go the acting title holder Sagan.
For now Russian teams start on "Tura Down Ander". As a part of "Katyusha" two with - the captain Rein Taaramyae and Tiagu Machado, and also Sergey Lagutin, Maxim Belkov, Vladimir Isaychev, Egor Silin and Alexey Tsatevich.
as a part of Tinkoff in Australia Ivan Rovny, Jay McCarthy, Michael Walgren, Manuele Boaro, Michael Gogl, Oskar Gateaux and Adam Blyth who has already issued a debut for new team will act, having become the third on kriteriume to People's Choice Classic.