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

I'm lost but I'm hopeful

Category: Cycling

It was really nice to swim today and it really helped me to feel okay again. But God knows that I have been annoyed.

Anyway, Norwegian Frederik Wilmann will leave his team Joker-Bianchi and start riding for the Professional Continental Skil-Shimano for the 2010 season.

This year Frederik Wilmann won the French Mi-Août Bretonne stage race and a stage of the Tour Alsace. The Joker-Bianchi team was a Continental team so now he will move up to a higher level. The Skil-Shimano raced in the Tour de France this year.

Frederik Wilmann is a climber so he will likely ride the tougher races in the year. But surely it is hard to say how he will really deal with the biggest mountains, or as a professional, since he has never really tried them, at least not when it comes to the bigger competititions, like  Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré.

Wilmann's father, Jostein Wilmann, was a professional cyclist. He was the first and only Norwegian to win the Tour de Romandie and Setmana Catalana in 1982.
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