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Cannondale Pro Cycling Team (UCI team code: CAN), previously known as Liquigas, was an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour.
 The team at the 2012 Tour of California | |
| Team information | |
|---|---|
| UCI code | CAN |
| Registered | Italy |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Disbanded | 2014 (Merged with Garmin–Sharp) |
| Discipline(s) | Road |
| Status | UCI ProTeam |
| Bicycles | Cannondale |
| Website | Team home page |
| Key personnel | |
| General manager | Roberto Amadio |
| Team name history | |
2005 2006–2009 2010 2011–2012 2013–2014 | Liquigas–Bianchi (LIQ) Liquigas (LIQ) Liquigas–Doimo (LIQ) Liquigas–Cannondale (LIQ) Cannondale (CAN) |
The team was formed at the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005. the team was co-title sponsored by Italian companies Liquigas and Bianchi, therefore it was named Liquigas–Bianchi. It featured a number of big names including Italian riders Mario Cipollini, Danilo Di Luca and Stefano Garzelli, as well as Magnus Bäckstedt.
In 2007, Cannondale replaced Bianchi as the bicycle sponsor. This marked Cannondale's return to the ProTour after discontinuing sponsorship of the Lampre–Caffita team at the end of the 2005 season. Being an American company, their sponsorship led to a small American ridership on the team.
On 11 July 2008 the news broke from the French sports paper L'Équipe that Spanish rider Manuel Beltrán had tested positive for EPO after the first stage of the tour. It was blood abnormalities before the start of the tour that led France's Anti-Doping Agency to target the rider. According to AP a spokesperson for Liquigas confirmed the same day that Beltrán had been thrown off the tour. It was also reported that the police had picked Beltrán up from his hotel where he had been staying with the rest of the Liquigas team, as well as searching the rest of the hotel for more doping. It was later confirmed that his B-sample also tested positive.[1]
From the 2009 Giro d'Italia until the 2012 Tour de France, the team finished every Grand Tour with all nine riders, a total of 11 such events in succession.
For the 2013 season Liquigas-Cannondale became Cannondale Pro Cycling as Cannondale Bicycle Corporation took over as the title sponsor in partnership with Brixia Sports.[2] In August 2014 the team announced their intention to merge with EF Education–EasyPost for the 2015 season.[3]
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Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, Franco Pellizotti
Overall Tour of the Basque Country, Danilo di Luca
Italy Road Race Championships, Enrico Gasparotto Overall Circuit Franco-Belge, Marco Zanotti
Overall Giro d'Italia, Danilo Di Luca
Sweden Road Race Championships, Magnus Bäckstedt
Overall Giro del Trentino, Vincenzo Nibali
Points classification in the Giro d'Italia, Daniele Bennati
Overall Tour de Suisse, Roman Kreuziger
Overall Giro di Sardegna, Daniele Bennati
Overall Driedaagse van De Panne, Frederik Willems Overall Giro del Trentino, Ivan Basso Overall Tour de Romandie, Roman Kreuziger
Poland Time Trial Championships, Maciej Bodnar
Finland Road Race Championships, Kjell Carlström
Mountains classification in the Tour de France, Franco Pellizotti
Overall Tour de San Luis, Vincenzo Nibali
Overall Giro di Sardegna, Roman Kreuziger
Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, Ivan Santaromita
Giro d'Italia, Ivan Basso
Overall Tour of Slovenia, Vincenzo Nibali
Belarus Road Race Championships, Aleksandr Kuschynski Overall Vuelta a España, Vincenzo Nibali Overall Giro di Sardegna, Peter Sagan
Slovakia Road Race Championships, Peter Sagan Overall Tour de Pologne, Peter Sagan
Overall Giro di Padania, Ivan Basso
Slovakia Road Race Championships, Peter Sagan
United States Road Race Championships, Timmy Duggan Poland Time Trial Championships, Maciej Bodnar Overall Tirreno–Adriatico, Vincenzo Nibali
Points classification in the Tour de France, Peter Sagan Overall Tour de Pologne, Moreno Moser
Overall Giro di Padania, Vincenzo Nibali
Poland Time Trial Championships, Maciej Bodnar
Denmark Time Trial Championships, Brian Vandborg Slovakia Road Race Championships, Peter Sagan Points classification in the Tour de France, Peter Sagan Overall Tour of Elk Grove, Elia Viviani
Slovakia Road Race Championships, Peter Sagan Points classification in the Tour de France, Peter Sagan
Overall Combativity award Tour de France, Alessandro De Marchi| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
World Time Trial Serhiy Honchar
Ukrainian Time Trial Serhiy Honchar
Italian Road Race Enrico Gasparotto
Swedish Road Race Magnus Bäckstedt
Polish Time Trial Maciej Bodnar
Finnish Road Race Kjell Carlström
Belarusian Road Race Aleksandr Kuschynski
Slovak Road Race Peter Sagan Slovak Road Race Peter Sagan
United States Road Race Timmy Duggan Polish Time Trial Maciej Bodnar Polish Time Trial Maciej Bodnar
Danish Time Trial Brian Vandborg Slovak Road Race Peter Sagan Slovak Road Race Peter SaganSeamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
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