The team Astana Qazaqstan continues its changes for 2025. And at the end of this year, the 18 teams that will have WorldTour license in 2026 and that, therefore, they will be able to compete in those races of the highest level.
After announcing the signing of up to 12 riders and also the reinforcement of the performance squad with 4 specialists, today the team announced the inclusion of three new sports directors for next season.
Lorenzo Lapage, Peter Kennaugh and Dario Cataldoall of them professional ex-cyclists, were chosen to manage the sports management of group Kazakh to fight for improve on its 2024 record where they only achieved 12 wins.
As the team’s general manager, Alexandr Vinokurov, explained in the statement, Lorenzo Lapage outstanding in its experience and responsibility as well as a “great career outlook” which is combined with his quality as “a good administrator and coordinator of the team off the bike.”
And the Belgian, 58 years old, has a long history as sports director which began in 2005 on the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling through Rock Racing (2009), the Orica GreenEDGE (from 2012 to 2021) until you reach the Yonterarché-Circus-Wanty where he spent the last two seasons.
On the other hand Peter Kennaugh and Dario Cataldo, 35 and 39 years old respectively, will bring youth to the management team in addition to “a new perspective on modern cycling“. The Briton has already served as sports director at Trinity Racing (2022-2024) while Italian will be released after we took the bike down at the end of this season we left.
Source: La Verdad
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