First team get-together coming up

Ioannis Tamouridis, André Schulze and co. will have their first chance to get acquainted with Samuel Sánchez, Igor Antón et al. when the team arranges its first pre-season training camp next week.

Of course, it'll be more a meet & greet than a training camp, seeing as the riders will do all their usual planning, medical check-ups etc., with a bit of training thrown in. The team will gather at the team's headquarters in Derio, just north of Bilbao, from Monday the 26th through Thursday.

By then, the team might have gotten an answer from the UCI's Licence Commission whether or not they'll be part of the WorldTour next year. As team head Igor González de Galdeano put it though, that "shouldn't be a problem".

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