Cycling News

01 March 2010

Dean Martin has asked Simon about the chances of Australia having a team in the ProTour. 

There’s no doubt we have enough Australians racing at the highest level to field a very competitive ProTour team and there is definitely no shortage of young Aussie talent coming through the ranks to keep it going for many years to come. We even have a number of great Australian directors working on different ProTour teams who could potentially run an Australian team.

The motivation would be incredible. Whether it's at the World Championships, Commonwealth Games or Olympic Games, all Aussies get a real buzz out of racing for the national team, so an Australian trade team would have a fantastic ambience.

So we have the riders, we have the staff and there’s no shortage of motivation. The only thing we are now missing is a sponsor to put in approximately AUD $20 million annually to run the team. There has been discussion about this over the past few years so hopefully one day soon it can become a reality.

Simon.

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