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HMT Launch Cycling Academy

HMT Launch Cycling Academy

HMT Launch Cycling AcademyThe Healthcare Management Trust – HMT – has announced the launch of its own cycling academy for aspiring professional cyclists. The creation of the team marks the turn toward a more public role in the world of cycling for HMT, the healthcare provider have played a significant behind the scenes role supporting riders from Rapha Condor – JLT, Haribo Beacon and Team Sportscover over recent seasons. The HMT Academy will consist of four riders who will compete in the British Cycling National Junior Series as well as several international junior single- and multi-stage races.

 

Continuing its relationship with Condor Cycles, the HMT Academy will share its colours and a number of suppliers with Condor’s new UCI registered team for 2015.

 

Completing the link with Condor, HMT also announced the continuation of their support for Condor’s professional road team with their role as official healthcare provider to the team for the 2015 season.

 

Tony Barrett, Chief Executive of HMT comments: ‘Cycling as an exercise and recreational pursuit has many benefits for health and is a great form of low impact exercise for all ages. Our long standing support of John Herety and his riders and now the HMT Academy provides an aspirational focus for diet, healthy weight maintenance and exercise, in particular for the young who we hope will follow the example of the elite athletes and establish the early habits of a good diet and regular exercise which will last a life time.’

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Rapha Condor JLT Complete 2014 Team

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Rapha Condor JLTRapha Condor JLT have announced three new signings to complete their roster for the 2014 season - Chris Opie, twice a winner at the Tour Series in 2012, 21-year-old Tom Moses joins after a successful year with team Raleigh in 2013, and Irishman Jack Sadler steps up to the team from their junior ranks.

 

Team manager John Herety commented, ‘All three of these riders fit in very well with the ambition of this team. As with 2012 and ‘13 our overall focus is on the development of the talented riders that we have on the team. But at the same time – as has always been the case – our driving ambition as a cycling team, is to win races… Chris Opie has proved that he knows what it takes to win domestically this season – taking individual wins in both the Premier Calendar and the Tour Series, and I also believe that he has the potential to step up to winning internationally next season.’

 

Opie, who spent several years racing in Holland as a youth before returning to ride for the now disbanded UK Youth team, added, ‘I am really excited to be able to join what is the most established team in the UK, and I’m really looking forward to the opportunities that will come along in what I am sure is a massive step forward in my career.’

 

The 2014 season gets underway for Rapha Condor JLT in January at the Bay Crits in Melbourne, before the team returns to the Jayco Herald Sun Tour later in January.

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Briggs Returns to Rapha Condor JLT

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Graham BriggsFormer National Criterium Champion Graham Briggs is set for a return to Rapha Condor JLT for 2014, having spent the last two seasons with Team Raleigh. Briggs, a formidable sprinter who spent 2008, 10 and 11 with Rapha Condor, will form part of what looks set to be a strong Tour Series team, alongside the likes of Ed Clancy and Felix English. Commenting on his realigned loyalties he commented: ‘I’ve had two good years at Raleigh, but I decided that it was time for a change. I was part of the Rapha Condor Sharp team in 2011 when we had a really successful year, but after that the focus of the team changed and I wanted to go off and see how I could go leading a team…’

 

Thirty-year-old Briggs says he is also keen to play his part in the development of the young riders in the team: ‘I benefitted a lot from older riders passing their experience on to me when I was younger and I hope to be able to do the same now. I think that I am in the right stage of my career to do it now too. Two years ago I don’t think I would have much help for real young guys, but that is not the case now.’

 

Despite reports that Briggs will be racing in Rapha Condor JLT colours this Autumn, the Yorkshireman is in fact currently riding for the Rapha Condor Cycling Club, following his mutual agreement to part ways early with Team Raleigh.

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Top Teams Join Prudential RideLondon

Top Teams Join Prudential RideLondon

Top Teams Join Prudential RideLondon150 of the world’s top cyclists are set to compete in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic, taking place as part of the Prudential RideLondon cycling festival across the weekend of August 3 and 4. The Surrey Classic will be a variation on the London 2012 Olympic Road Cycling Race, following the same route as the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 sportive (which was opened to all via a ballot and charity ride initiative) but feature an extension of 40miles – around Leith Hill – to meet UCI pro race requirements. Eight of the world’s top UCI ProTour teams have confirmed their involvement – Belkin, FDJ, Cannondale, Garmin-Sharp, Orica-GreenEDGE, Vacansoleil DCM and home-favourites Team Sky; they will be joined by UCI Pro Continental teams, including NetApp Endura, and UCI Continental teams including Team UK Youth, Raleigh and Rapha Condor-JLT.

 

The Prudential RideLondon event was developed by the Mayor of London and his agencies and is managed by the London & Surrey Cycling Partnership (LSCP), itself a partnership between The London Marathon Limited (owners and operators of the London Marathon since 1981) and SweetSpot Group Limited, operators of the Tour of Britain. For full details of all events on offer – both for participation and viewing – across the weekend of August 3 and 4 see prudentialridelondon.co.uk

 

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Rapha Condor JLT Reveal Line Up

Rapha Condor JLT 2013 Line UpThe 2013 Rapha Condor JLT team has been officially launched at the London offices of new sponsor Jardine Lloyd Thompson, an international group of risk specialists and employee benefits consultants; JLT have replaced co-headline sponsor Sharp after their decision to concentrate efforts at World Tour level (with Garmin-Sharp). The launch event was an opportunity for the Rapha Condor team to officially welcome new title sponsor to the team, as well as to introduce the full 2013 line up for the first time. The team’s commitment to the development of young British riders has clearly been re-emphasised in 2013, with the addition of no less than five fresh young riders to the team. Alongside the team’s stars, Olympian Ed Clancy and former National Road Race Champion Kristian House, the team will also field its youngest ever line up, including five under-23 riders – three of whom will be making their senior debut for the team.

 

Commenting on the ambitions to develop young riders, team manager John Herety said, ‘After a successful transition into a development team in 2012, we’ve taken on an even younger group of riders this year. Our ambition is to offer these riders the best possible platform to experience high level racing both at home and abroad to help them develop and put themselves in a position to move up through the sport.’ Pragmatic as ever, he added, ‘we will also of course be looking for results. Our main aims will be focused on the Tour of Britain and the Tour Series here in the UK, but we also have a busy calendar of international racing where I expect these riders to prove themselves in some highly competitive racing…’

 

The team’s European campaign starts next week with the Tour of Normandy (March 18-24).

 

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Introducing Rapha Condor… JLT

JLT sponsor Rapha Condor - Rapha Condor JLTThe Rapha Condor Continental Cycling Team has today announced a new sponsorship deal with the JLT Group. Previous co-headline sponsor Sharp, who had been involved with the team for three and a half years, had recently announced their own plans to concentrate efforts at World Tour level (with Garmin-Sharp) leaving the way clear for JLT, an international group of Risk Specialists and Employee Benefits Consultants. 2013 will mark the sixth season that Rapha Condor has sponsored a British UCI registered team and the partnership with JLT is said to underline the team’s commitment to the future of British cycling, as the team continues to focus on its goal of developing young British talent.

 

Speaking on behalf of Rapha Condor, Grant Young of Condor cycles said, ‘I can’t wait for the 2013 to start, this is the next chapter in an exciting adventure for British cycle sport and the team. I am pleased we can work with another sponsor who understands our approach, ethics, passion for developing the sport from the grass roots up to the sky.’ Team manager John Herety added, ‘I am delighted that JLT share our enthusiasm about the way that this team aims to work with young riders. JLT understood this very quickly and they recognised that in the current environment in cycling a team like ours will educate young riders into making the correct choices.’