Rogers joins Team Sky.
Three-times world time trial champion Michael Rogers will join Team
Sky next season. The 30-year-old Australian has left HTC-Columbia, the
successor to the T-Mobile team he joined in 2006 from Quick Step.
Rogers, who won the Tour of California and Vuelta a Andalucia this year,
follows Caisse d’Epargne duo Rigoberto Uran and Xabier Zandio and local
rider Alex Dowsett as new faces in the British team. Rogers joins
compatriots Chris Sutton, Matthew Hayman and Simon Gerrans in Dave
Brailsford’s squad.
Deignan joins RadioShack.
Irish cyclist Philip Deignan and Portugal’s Nelson Oliveira have
signed deals to ride for Team RadioShack. The signings take the team’s
list of new riders to six after Manuel Antonio Cardoso (Portugal), Ben
King (USA), Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland) and Jesse Sergent (New Zealand)
all joined the outfit in September. Deignan (pictured), 27, became the
first Irish cyclist since Stephen Roche to win a stage on a grand tour
when he won a Vuelta a Espana stage in Avila last year on his way to
ninth place overall.
