Team Site: Click
Manager quote: “Progress needs to be made in small steps. but when you get greedy and try a big step, it’ wrong in every way.”
Baboco Cycling Team entering its second season in 2011, the team has refocused its efforts on young promising riders. Leading them is returning Polish National Champion Mariusz Gil.
The team’s inaugural season was a trying one. While they had the big draw of three-time world champion Erwin Vervecken on the squad, they also suffered a devastating turn of events that saw them gain and lose a current World Championship jersey. A couple of months after Baboco’s under-23 rider Pawel Szczepaniak won the World Championships in the Czech Republic last January, he was handed an eight-year suspension due to his positive doping result for EPO.
But the team have signed with Bike Pure to aline themselves with the bright future of cycling and distance themselves from the actions of an individual.
Manager: Steven Baekelandt
Elite: Mariusz Gil (POL), Gianni Denolf, Sam Govaert, Kristof Zegers
Under-23: Ritchie Denolf, Floris De Tier, Xandro Meurisse, Valentijn Van de Velde
Juniors: Michael Vanthourenhout
Women: Christine Vardaros (USA)
Masters: Jochen Heylen
Bikes: Zannata
Gianni Denolf
