RadioShack Granted ProTour License
Here we go... USA adds third top tier UCI registered team to the national roster...

America has another top tier team according to the International Cycling Union (UCI) which granted Team RadioShack a ProTour license for the next four years. The license will begin at the beginning of 2010 and run through 2014 at which time it will be up for renewal.

This is a major win for Lance Armstrong and Co. because it means access to all ProTour events. Even though it does not guarantee entry into some major races such as Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour de France it will surely put pressure on the organizers to include them in these races.

The signing of quality riders such as Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and Andreas Klöden most definitely helped gain ProTour status, but maybe more importantly for the future of the team is the commitment of sponsorship from RadioShack. So much so that the UCI decided to award a four-year license. With Armstrong riding next year and maybe the year after that (we’ll see), it seems as though this team is poised to continue in the post Armstrong era.

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