Track cycling world champion Taylor Phinney has been promoted
to ride for Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack for the rest of
the road race season.
The 20-year-old American will step up from Armstrong's
Trek-Livestrong development squad to compete in the August
4-8 Tour of Denmark.
Team manager Johan Bruyneel said on Thursday he was giving
Phinney and teammates Jesse Sergent and Clinton Avery the
opportunity to ride in stage and one-day races in France and
Belgium over the next two months.
"All three riders are classy young riders," Bruyneel said.
"We believe in them and are hoping this works out and can
lead to something permanent next year.
"So far none of the three riders has a guaranteed place in
our 2011 team but this is already a step forward in their
development as a pro rider."
Phinney is a two-time pursuit world champion on the track,
and won the past two under-23 editions of the famed
Paris-Roubaix event which races over cobblestones. His
father, Davis Phinney, was a Tour de France stage winner and
team time trial bronze medallist at the 1984 Los Angeles
Olympics.
Sergent won silver in pursuit behind Phinney at the 2010
worlds held in Denmark, and rode in New Zealand's
bronze-medal quartet in team pursuit at the 2008 Beijing
Olympics.
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