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Team RadioShack

{{short description|American bicycle racing team (2010–2011)}}

{{Infobox cycling team

| name = Team RadioShack

| image = Jesse Sergent 3DWV2011 3.JPG

| caption =

| code = RSH{{cite web |url=http://www.uciprotour.com/Modules/SUCI/TEAMS/TeamDetails.asp?id=NDA3MQ&RefDate=01.01.2010 |title=UCI WorldTour |publisher=Uciprotour.com |access-date=2012-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224021955/http://www.uciprotour.com/Modules/SUCI/TEAMS/TeamDetails.asp?id=NDA3MQ&RefDate=01.01.2010 |archive-date=2012-02-24 |url-status=dead }}

| registered = United States

| founded = {{start date|2010}}

| disbanded = 2011

| discipline = Road

| status = UCI ProTeam

| bicycles = Trek

| generalmanager = Johan Bruyneel

| teammanager = Dirk Demol

| kitimage = Team RadioShack Jersey 2011.gif

}}

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Team RadioShack was a professional road bicycle racing team, with RadioShack as the title sponsor, the creation of which was announced on July 23, 2009. Lance Armstrong co-owned and led the team, which raced in the Grand Tours and the UCI ProTour. The team was managed by Capital Sports and Entertainment, an Austin, Texas sports and event management group that also manages the Trek-Livestrong U23 development cycling team and that ran the former Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/8166016.stm|title=Armstrong to launch new US team |date=2009-07-23|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=2009-07-27}}

Johan Bruyneel was Team RadioShack's initial overall managerCyclingNews.com. [http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-radioshack-finalizes-2010-roster "Team RadioShack finalizes 2010 roster"], Cycling News, 2009-11-23. Retrieved on 2009-12-23. and Dirk Demol was the directeur sportif.[http://www.velonews.com/article/96556 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814183626/http://www.velonews.com/article/96556 |date=August 14, 2009 }}{{Cite news|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/armstrong-brings-classics-riders-to-radioshack|title=Armstrong brings Classics riders to RadioShack|date=August 25, 2009|work=Cycling News}} Former Discovery Channel cyclists Viatcheslav Ekimov from Russia and José Azevedo from Portugal was also part of the managerial squad.{{Cite news|url=http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=189005|title=José Azevedo dirige Armstrong na Austrália|date=January 9, 2010|work=A Bola|access-date=January 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112015921/http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=189005|archive-date=January 12, 2010|url-status=dead}} Armstrong said that the team would promote the Livestrong anti-cancer campaigns of his Lance Armstrong Foundation, and will also be sponsored by Trek Bicycle Corporation, SRAM Corporation and Nike, Inc. sportswear.{{cite web|author=Richard Tyler |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/radio-shack-joins-forces-with-livestrong |title=Radio Shack Joins Forces With Livestrong |date=23 July 2009 |publisher=Cyclingnews.com |access-date=2012-01-02}}[http://www.velonews.com/article/95712/ ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725214922/http://www.velonews.com/article/95712/ |date=July 25, 2009 }}{{cite web |url=http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/32107351/ns/sports-tour_de_france/ |title=Armstrong, RadioShack form team for '10 Tour – Tour de France- NBC Sports |publisher=Nbcsports.msnbc.com |date=2009-07-23 |access-date=2012-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404142744/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/32107351/ns/sports-tour_de_france/ |archive-date=2012-04-04 |url-status=dead }}

The team ceased to exist in its current structure from the end of the 2011 season as Radioshack returned their World Tour Licence to the UCI. Their two main sponsors, RadioShack and Nissan, moved their sponsorship to Team Leopard Trek. Sporting Director Johan Bruyneel moved to the newly named RadioShack-Nissan team along with several of the current Radioshack riders. While effectively a merge, there is some debate between the two teams as to the nature of the agreement. Radioshack described it as a merge,{{cite web|url=http://www.livestrong.com/teamradioshack/news_press-release-radioshack-nissan-trek-cycling-super-team-links-top-riders-sponsors/ |title=RadioShack Nissan Trek Cycling Super Team Links Top Riders and Sponsors | Team Radioshack |publisher=Livestrong.com |access-date=2012-01-02}} while Flavio Becca, owner of Leopard Trek stated that his team was continuing, and simply taking over Radioshacks sponsors, and some of their riders.{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/becca-confirms-nygaards-departure-from-leopard-trek |title=Becca Confirms Nygaard's Departure From Leopard Trek |publisher=Cyclingnews.com |access-date=2012-01-02}} The new team was registered in Luxembourg with the UCI.

Team history

=2010=

{{main|2010 Team RadioShack season}}

On November 25, 2009, The UCI ProTour Council (UPTC) announced that the team was successfully registered for the 2010 season {{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-registers-seventeen-protour-teams-for-2010 |title=UCI Registers Seventeen ProTour Teams For 2010 |date=25 November 2009 |publisher=Cyclingnews.com |access-date=2012-01-02}} The team's final 2010 team roster includes 26 riders from 16 countries, after Japanese rider Fumiyuki Beppu joined in February.Tyler, Richard. [http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/radioshack-leave-beppu-matter-to-skil-shimano "RadioShack leave Beppu matter to Skil-Shimano"], Cycling News, 2009-11-25. Retrieved on 2009-12-23.[http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/skil-shimano-terminates-contract-with-beppu Skil-Shimano terminates contract with Beppu] Demol and twelve of the riders were previously with the Kazakh team {{UCI team code|AST}} in the UCI ProTour, including eight of the team's nine riders on the winning team in the 2009 Tour de France. In April 2010 Li Fuyu was suspended by the team after failing a doping test.[http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/radioshack-suspends-li-after-doping-positive Radioshack suspends Li after doping positive]

The team had planned on racing in the 2010 Tour de France and the 2010 Vuelta a España, among other races, but it controversially was not invited to the Vuelta.

{{Citation

| url = http://www.livestrong.com/teamradioshack/news_press-release-team-manager-johan-bruyneel-stunned-over-team-radioshack-u2019s-non-invite-vuelta/

| date = 14 June 2010| title = Press Release: Team Manager Johan Bruyneel Stunned over Team RadioShack's Non-Invite to the Vuelta

| access-date = 2010-06-16

}} Team RadioShack went on to achieve the team victory of the 2010 Tour de France, while leading the team classification after about half its stages. It was the second time that an American team had won the team classification, preceded by Discovery Channel in 2007. After the Tour de France, the team promoted Taylor Phinney and Jesse Sergent from the Trek-Livestrong U23 team and Clinton Avery from the PWS Eijssen team to the RadioShack roster as "stagiaires" ("trainees" in French) for the remainder of the season.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=17363 |title=Stagiaire roundup, 30 July 2010 |author=Vaughn Trevi |publisher=Daily Peloton |date=2010-07-30 |access-date=2010-08-01}}

=2011=

{{main|2011 Team RadioShack season}}

The 2011 season for {{UCI team code|RSH|2011}} began in January at the Tour Down Under, and ended in October with Robbie McEwen's participation in the Noosa Grand Prix. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.

While the team had 28 wins in 2011, and showed well enough to briefly be the leading team in the UCI World Tour rankings, they were nearly invisible in the Grand Tours, the races which have defined manager Johan Bruyneel's managerial career. A Tour de France besieged by crashes and injuries led to Haimar Zubeldia in 15th place being their best finisher, the worst showing for a Bruyneel-led team at the Tour in five years. The team's principal successes were the three major stage races in the United States, the Tour of California, the Tour of Utah, and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Team RadioShack fielded the overall winner in all three events, Chris Horner in California and Levi Leipheimer in Utah and Colorado. The team also won seven other stage races, easily the most of any major team on the season.

2011 team roster

As at December 31, 2011.

{{Cycling squad start}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Fumiyuki Beppu|nat=JPN |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1983|4|10}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Sam Bewley|nat=NZL |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1987|7|22}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Janez Brajkovič|nat=SLO|birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1983|12|18}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Matthew Busche|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1985|5|9}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Manuel Cardoso|nat=POR |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1983|4|7}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Philip Deignan|nat=IRE |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1983|9|7}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ben Hermans|nat=BEL |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1986|6|8}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Chris Horner|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1971|11|10}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Robert Hunter|nat=RSA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1977|4|22}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ben King|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1989|3|22}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Andreas Klöden|nat=GER|birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1975|6|22}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Michał Kwiatkowski|nat=POL|birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1990|6|2}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Markel Irizar|nat=ESP |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1980|2|5}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Levi Leipheimer|nat=USA|birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1973|10|24}}}}

{{Cycling squad mid}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Geoffroy Lequatre|nat=FRA|birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1981|6|30}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Tiago Machado|nat=POR|birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1985|10|18}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Jason McCartney|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1973|9|3}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Robbie McEwen|nat=AUS |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1972|6|24}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Dmitriy Muravyev|nat=KAZ |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1979|11|2}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Nelson Oliveira|nat=POR |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1989|3|6}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Sérgio Paulinho|nat=POR|birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1980|3|26}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Yaroslav Popovych|nat=UKR |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1980|1|4}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Grégory Rast|nat=SUI |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1980|1|17}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Sébastien Rosseler|nat=BEL |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1981|7|15}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ivan Rovny|nat=RUS |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1987|9|30}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Bjørn Selander|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1988|1|28}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Jesse Sergent|nat=NZL |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1988|7|8}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Haimar Zubeldia|nat=ESP |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2011|12|31|1977|4|1}}}}

{{Cycling squad end}}

=2012 Bontrager-Livestrong U23 team roster=

As of December 31, 2012.{{cite web|url=http://62.50.72.82/ucinet/default.asp?page=UCITeamsdetail&discipline=ROA&continent=ALL&teamscategory=CTM&teamstype=CTM&year=2012&teamnameid=3450&npage=6&search=&l=ENG|title=Bontrager Livestrong Team (TLS) – USA|access-date=February 5, 2012|work=UCI Continental Circuits|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale}}{{cite news|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/usa-cycling-announces-american-uci-registered-continental-teams|title=USA Cycling announces American UCI-registered Continental Teams|date=December 12, 2011|access-date=February 5, 2012|website=Cycling News}}

{{Cycling squad start}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Joshua Atkins|nat=NZL |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1992|6|28}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ian Boswell|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1991|2|7}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Nathan Brown|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1991|7|7}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Lawson Craddock|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1992|2|20}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Jasper De Buyst|nat=BEL |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1993|11|24}}}}

{{Cycling squad mid}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Joseph Dombrowski|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1991|5|12}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ryan Eastman|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1992|7|28}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Gavin Mannion|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1991|8|24}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Conor O'Leary|nat=USA |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1991|1|1}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Dale Parker|nat=AUS |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1992|5|12}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Jasper Stuyven|nat=BEL |birthdate={{birth date and age2|2012|12|31|1992|4|17}}}}

{{Cycling squad end}}

List of wins

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;2010

: Stage 4 Volta ao Algarve, Sébastien Rosseler

::File:Jersey pink.svg Portuguese rider classification, Tiago Machado

::20px Teams classification

: 20px Teams classification Giro di Sardegna

: 20px Youth classification Critérium International, Tiago Machado

:: 20px Teams classification

: Stage 2b Circuit de la Sarthe, Tiago Machado

: Overall 20px Tour of the Basque Country, Chris Horner

::Stage 6, Chris Horner

: De Brabantse Pijl, Sébastien Rosseler

: 20px Teams classification, Vuelta a Castilla y León

: 20px Teams classification, Tour de Romandie

: Overall 20px Tour of the Gila, Levi Leipheimer

::Stage 1, Levi Leipheimer

: Stage 5 Tour of Belgium, Ben Hermans

: 20px Teams classification Tour de Luxembourg

: Overall 20px Critérium du Dauphiné, Janez Brajkovič

::Stage 4, Janez Brajkovič

: 20px Teams classification Tour of Austria

: 20px Teams classification Tour de France

::Stage 10, Sergio Paulinho

: Overall 20px Tour de l'Ain, Haimar Zubeldia

::Prologue, Haimar Zubeldia

: Overall 20px Tour of Utah, Levi Leipheimer

::Prologue, Taylor Phinney

::Stage 3, Levi Leipheimer

: Stage 4 Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Markel Irizar

: Prologue Tour de l'Avenir, Taylor Phinney

: Leadville Trail 100 MTB, Levi Leipheimer

: {{flagu|United States}} National Time Trial championships, Taylor Phinney

: World U23 Road Race championships, Taylor Phinney

;2011

: Trofeo Inca-inca, Ben Hermans

: Tour De Mumbai II, Robbie Hunter

: Overall 20px Vuelta a Andalucía Ruta ciclista del Sol, Markel Irizar

: Overall 20px Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, Jesse Sergent

::Prologue Jesse Sergent

: Stage 5 Paris–Nice, Andréas Klöden

: Stage 4 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, Manuel Cardoso

: Stage 3 Critérium International, Andréas Klöden

: Overall 20px Three Days of De Panne, Sébastien Rosseler

: Overall 20px Tour of the Basque Country, Andréas Klöden

: Stage 1 Giro del Trentino, Andréas Klöden

: Overall 20px Amgen Tour of California, Chris Horner

::Stage 4, Chris Horner

::Stage 7, Levi Leipheimer

: {{flagu|United States}} National Road Race championships, Matthew Busche

: {{flagu|Japan}} National Time Trial championships, Fumiyuki Beppu

: Overall Tour de Suisse, Levi Leipheimer

: {{flagu|Portugal}} National Time Trial championships, Nelson Oliveira

: {{flagu|Japan}} National Road Racec championships, Fumiyuki Beppu

: {{SLO}} National Time Trial championships, Janez Brajkovič

: Stage 1 Tour of Austria, Robert Hunter

: Stage 4 Tour de Wallonie, Robbie McEwen

: Stage 5 Eneco Tour, Jesse Sergent

: Overall 20pxTour of Utah, Levi Leipheimer

: Overall 20px USA Pro Cycling Challenge, Levi Leipheimer

::Stages 1 & 3, Levi Leipheimer

: Overall 20px Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Jesse Sergent

::Stage 4, Jesse Sergent

: Overall 20px Tour de Wallonie-Picarde, Robbie McEwen

::Stages 1 & 4, Robbie McEwen

=Supplementary statistics=

Sources{{cite web|url=http://firstcycling.com |title=firstcycling |publisher=firstcycling.com|access-date=5 March 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://procyclingstats.com |title=ProCyclingStats |publisher=ProCyclingStats |access-date=5 March 2021}}

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|style="background:#00BFFF;" colspan=5|Grand Tours by highest finishing position

Race

!2010

!2011

align="center"

| Giro d'Italia

| style="background:#eee;"| –

| style="background:#eee;"| 19

align="center"

| Tour de France

| style="background:#ddf;"| 9

| style="background:#eee;"| 15

align="center"

| Vuelta a España

| style="background:#eee;"| –

| style="background:#eee;"| 22

style="background:#00BFFF;" colspan=5| Major week-long stage races by highest finishing position
Race

!2010

!2011

align="center"

| Tour Down Under

| style="background:#eee;"| 24

| style="background:#eee;"| 15

align="center"

| Paris–Nice

| style="background:#eee;"| 11

| style="background:#ddf;"| 2

align="center"

| Tirreno–Adriatico

| style="background:#eee;"| –

| style="background:#ddf;"| 7

align="center"

| Volta a Catalunya

| style="background:#ddf;"| 9

| style="background:#ddf;"| 3

align="center"

| Tour of the Basque Country

| style="background:yellow;"| 1

| style="background:yellow;"| 1

align="center"

| Tour de Romandie

| style="background:#ddf;"| 5

| style="background:#ddf;"| 7

align="center"

| Critérium du Dauphiné

| style="background:yellow;"| 1

| style="background:#ddf;"| 9

align="center"

| Tour de Suisse

| style="background:#ddf;"| 2

| style="background:yellow;"| 1

align="center"

| Tour de Pologne

| style="background:#ddf;"| 9

| style="background:#eee;"| 18

align="center"

| Eneco Tour

| style="background:#ddf;"| 8

| style="background:#ddf;"| 9

style="background:#00BFFF;" colspan=5| Monument races by highest finishing position
Race

!2010

!2011

align="center"

| Milan–San Remo

| style="background:#eee;"| 14

| style="background:#eee;"| 23

align="center"

| Tour of Flanders

| style="background:#eee;"| 27

| style="background:#eee;"| 42

align="center"

| Paris–Roubaix

| style="background:#eee;"| 11

| style="background:#ddf;"| 4

align="center"

| Liège–Bastogne–Liège

| style="background:#ddf;"| 7

| style="background:#eee;"| 22

align="center"

| Giro di Lombardia

| style="background:#eee;"| 20

| style="background:#eee;"| 32

style="background:#00BFFF;" colspan=5| Classics by highest finishing position
Classic

!2010

!2011

align="center"

|Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

| style="background:#eee;"| 54

| style="background:#eee;"| –

align="center"

|Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

| style="background:#ddf;"| 9

| style="background:#eee;"| –

align="center"

|Strade Bianche

| style="background:#eee;"| –

| style="background:#eee;"| –

align="center"

|E3 Harelbeke

| style="background:#eee;"| 16

| style="background:#eee;"| 41

align="center"

|Gent–Wevelgem

| style="background:#eee;"| DNF

| style="background:#eee;"| 19

align="center"

|Amstel Gold Race

| style="background:#ddf;"| 10

| style="background:#ddf;"| 8

align="center"

|La Flèche Wallonne

| style="background:#ddf;"| 7

| style="background:#eee;"| 17

align="center"

|Clásica de San Sebastián

| style="background:#ddf;"| 4

| style="background:#ddf;"| 6

align="center"

|Paris–Tours

| style="background:#ec9;"| 3

| style="background:#ddf;"| 7

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National championships

;2010

::20px USA Road Race Ben King

::20px USA Time Trial Taylor Phinney

::20px U23 World Road Race Taylor Phinney

;2011

::20px Japan Road Race Fumiyuki Beppu

::20px Japan Time Trial Fumiyuki Beppu

::20px USA Road Race Matthew Busche

::20px Slovenia Time Trial Janez Brajkovič

::20px Portugal Time Trial Nelson Oliveira

References

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External links

{{commons category|Team RadioShack}}

  • {{official website}}
  • [http://www.uciprotour.com/Modules/SUCI/TEAMS/TeamDetails.asp?id=NDA3MQ UCI Team Profile]{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuDjg3qpaQs Building the Team RadioShack Trek Madone] on YouTube
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120313110608/http://www.treklivestrongu23.com/ Trek-Livestrong U23]

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{{Tour de France team classification winners}}

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