My name is Elin - A pro cycling lover's reflections

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Category: Cycling

Johannes Fröhlinger, Christian Knees, Linus Gerdemann, Thomas Rohregger, Martin Velits, Peter Velits, Paul Voss and Peter Wrolich will race the Clásica San Sebastián for Team Milram. The race is difficult, really tough, and it's always an interesting race to watch.

At the same time the sponsor of Milram, Nordmilch AG, has said that it will stop its sponsorship of its Continental Milram team at the end of the season. They will continue their sponsorship of its ProTour level team, Milram, through the 2010 season.

The Continental team was a little mess, so in some kind of way I have understanding for their decision. The Continental team formed from Team RSH in 2006. The team was supposed to prepare young cyclists to ride in the ProTour, but only one rider has made the step - Christian Kux, who moved up in 2008. Well, that's a pretty poor percental number, don't you think?
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