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2010 Team RadioShack season

2010 Team RadioShack season

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The 2010 season for , its first, began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. Team RadioShack rode in 2010 a UCI ProTour team, and was thus automatically invited to and obligated to send a squad to every ProTour event.

Much of the team joined after having competed as members of the Astana team from 2009, including team leaders Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, and Andreas Klöden, and team manager Johan Bruyneel. Many riders followed them, including all of Astana's 2009 Tour de France squad with the exception of champion Alberto Contador. The formation of the team was announced days after Alexander Vinokourov returned to Astana from suspension with new financial backers joining him – backers who favored Vinokourov and Contador over Bruyneel and Armstrong. The team also includes an assortment of riders who were members of other ProTour teams in 2009.

2010 roster

Ages as of January 1, 2010

;Riders' 2009 teams

Rider	2009 team
Lance Armstrong
Fumiyuki Beppu
Sam Bewley	neo-pro
Janez Brajkovič
Matthew Busche
Ben Hermans
Chris Horner
Andreas Klöden
Daryl Impey
Markel Irizar
Levi Leipheimer
Geoffroy Lequatre
Fuyu Li	Trek-Marco Polo Cycling Team
Tiago Machado	Madeinox-Boavista

Rider	2009 team
Jason McCartney
Dmitriy Muravyev
Sérgio Paulinho
Yaroslav Popovych
Grégory Rast
Sébastien Rosseler
Ivan Rovny
José Luis Rubiera
Bjørn Selander	neo-pro
Gert Steegmans
Tomas Vaitkus
Haimar Zubeldia

One-day races

Spring classics

Similar to the 2009 Astana team, Team RadioShack was not built for one-day races but rather for stage races. Its only win was earned in the Brabantse Pijl ("Brabant Arrow" in English) by Sébastien Rosseler.

Fall races

Levi Leipheimer won the Leadville Trail 100 MTB mountain bike race in August.

Stage races

Team RadioShack's first event in their history was the Tour Down Under. Armstrong and Bruyneel commented that they were eager to come away from the race with victories, likely with ace sprinter Steegmans, because the entire executive committee of RadioShack was in Australia to see the race in person.{{cite web |url-status = dead

RadioShack had a decent year in stage races, although overall victories were rare. Through August, it had only three general classification victories: Chris Horner in the Tour of the Basque Country; Janez Brajkovič in the Critérium du Dauphiné; and Haimar Zubeldia in the Tour de l'Ain. However, four other riders had also finished on the podium: Lance Armstrong, second in the Tour de Suisse and third in the Tour de Luxembourg; Tiago Machado, third in the Volta ao Algarve; Levi Leipheimer, third in the Tour of California; and Matthew Busche, third in the Tour of Denmark. Leipheimer also won the Tour of the Gila, although technically the Team RadioShack riders in that race (despite wearing jerseys with "RadioShack" on the front) were riding for Armstrong's "Mellow Johnny's" team, and the Tour of Utah, in which he rode alone for Mellow Johnny's.

Grand Tours

Because the three Grand Tour events are not part of the UCI ProTour, teams must be invited to each of the events and may choose not to participate. Team RadioShack requested not to be invited to the Giro d'Italia, instead sending their best riders to the concurrent Tour of California. Though the team actively sought a place in the Vuelta a España, they were not one of the 22 teams chosen for participation in that race either.{{cite web

Tour de France

The 2010 RadioShack team in the Tour de France was almost identical to the 2009 Astana team, with seven of the nine riders. The only changes were Chris Horner, replacing Alberto Contador, who remained with Astana, and Janez Brajkovic, replacing Haimar Zubeldia, who was recovering from a broken wrist. Although the team once again won Best Team, its highest individual result came from Horner, who finished 10th.

Season victories

Date	Race	Competition	Rider	Country	Location
{{dts	February	20}}	Volta ao Algarve, Stage 4	UCI Europe Tour	{{sortname	Sébastien	Rosseler}}
{{dts	February	20}}	Volta ao Algarve, Portuguese rider classification	UCI Europe Tour	{{sortname	Tiago	Machado}}
{{dts	February	21}}	Volta ao Algarve, Teams classification	UCI Europe Tour	The riders on the squad were Levi Leipheimer, Gert Steegmans, Tiago Machado, Andreas Klöden, Sébastien Rosseler, Grégory Rast, Sérgio Paulinho, and Tomas Vaitkus
{{dts	February	27}}	Giro di Sardegna, Teams classification	UCI Europe Tour	The riders on the squad were Ben Hermans, Chris Horner, Janez Brajkovič, Ivan Rovny, Geoffroy Lequatre, Dmitriy Muravyev, Matthew Busche, and Markel Irizar
{{dts	March	28}}	Critérium International, Youth classification	UCI Europe Tour	{{sortname	Tiago	Machado}}
{{dts	March	28}}	Critérium International, Teams classification	UCI Europe Tour	The riders on the squad were Tiago Machado, Chris Horner, Ben Hermans, Yaroslav Popovych, Lance Armstrong, Sérgio Paulinho, Matthew Busche, and Ivan Rovny
{{dts	April	7}}	Circuit de la Sarthe, Stage 2B	UCI Europe Tour	{{sortname	Tiago	Machado}}
{{dts	April	10}}	Tour of the Basque Country, Stage 6	UCI ProTour	{{sortname	Chris	Horner}}
{{dts	April	10}}	Tour of the Basque Country, Overall	UCI ProTour	{{sortname	Chris	Horner}}
{{dts	April	14}}	Brabantse Pijl	UCI Europe Tour	{{sortname	Sébastien	Rosseler}}
{{dts	April	18}}	Vuelta a Castilla y León, Teams classification	UCI Europe Tour	The riders on the squad were Tiago Machado, Fumiyuki Beppu, Markel Irizar, Janez Brajkovič, José Luis Rubiera, Gert Steegmans, Sam Bewley, and Jason McCartney
{{dts	May	2}}	Tour de Romandie, Teams classification	UCI ProTour	The riders on the squad were Tiago Machado, Janez Brajkovič, Matthew Busche, Haimar Zubeldia, José Luis Rubiera, Sérgio Paulinho, Markel Irizar, and Gert Steegmans
{{dts	May	30}}	Tour of Belgium, Stage 5	UCI Europe Tour	{{sortname	Ben	Hermans}}
{{dts	June	6}}	Tour de Luxembourg, Teams classification	UCI Europe Tour	The riders on the squad were Andreas Klöden, Lance Armstrong, Sam Bewley, Daryl Impey, Tiago Machado, Ivan Rovny, Grégory Rast, and Bjørn Selander
{{dts	June	9}}	Critérium du Dauphiné, Stage 3	UCI World Ranking	{{sortname	Janez	Brajkovič}}
{{dts	June	13}}	Critérium du Dauphiné, Overall	UCI World Ranking	{{sortname	Janez	Brajkovič}}
{{dts	July	11}}	Tour of Austria, Teams classification	UCI Europe Tour	The riders on the squad were Fumiyuki Beppu, Matthew Busche, Daryl Impey, Markel Irizar, Tiago Machado, Ivan Rovny, José Luis Rubiera, and Ben Hermans
{{dts	July	14}}	Tour de France, Stage 10	UCI World Ranking	{{sortname	Sérgio	Paulinho}}
{{dts	July	25}}	Tour de France, Teams classification	UCI World Ranking	The riders on the squad were Lance Armstrong, Janez Brajkovič, Chris Horner, Andreas Klöden, Levi Leipheimer, Dimitry Muravyev, Sérgio Paulinho, Yaroslav Popovych, and Grégory Rast
{{dts	August	10}}	Tour de l'Ain, Prologue	UCI Europe Tour	{{sortname	Haimar	Zubeldia}}
{{dts	August	14}}	Tour de l'Ain, Overall	UCI Europe Tour	{{sortname	Haimar	Zubeldia}}
{{dts	August	14}}	Leadville Trail 100 MTB	Mountain bike event	{{sortname	Levi	Leipheimer}}
{{dts	August	27}}	Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Stage 4	UCI Europe Tour	{{sortname	Markel	Irizar}}

Footnotes

References

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