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The 2009 Astana Cycling team has assembled one of the most talented squads in modern cycling history. The newest member is a longtime friend of Lance and former Discovery Channel teammate Yaroslav Popovych. Popovych is an extremely gifted rider who won the Best Young Rider designation in the 2005 Tour and stage winner in 2006 was a huge asset for Discovery helping lance to his last three Tour wins.
Bruyneel has to be licking his chops with all the weapons he has for the upcoming season.
2009 Astana Roser1:
- Lance Armstrong
- Assan Bazayev
- Jani Brajkovic
- Alberto Contador
- Valeriy Dmitriyev
- Aleksandr Dyachenko
- Jesús Hernández
- Chris Horner
- Maxim Iglinskiy
- Roman Kireyev
- Andreas Klöden
- Berik Kupeshov
- Levi Leipheimer
- Steve Morabito
- Dmitriy Muravyev
- Daniel Navarro
- Benjamín Noval
- Sérgio Paulinho
- Yaroslav Popovych
- Bolat Raimbekov
- Gregory Rast
- Sergey Renev
- José Luis Rubiera
- Michael Schär
- Tomas Vaitkus
- Andrey Zeits
- Haimar Zubeldia
- PPOL, Popovych Joins Astana [↩]
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[...] live audio commented that both Armstrong and longtime bro Yaroslav Popovych were exhorting the breakaway echelon to ride with full force in the closing [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
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