Team RadioShack was a professional

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, with

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as the title sponsor, the creation of which was announced on July 23, 2009.

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co-owned and led the team, which raced in the

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and the

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. The team was managed by Capital Sports and Entertainment, an

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sports and event management group that also manages the Trek-Livestrong U23 development cycling team and that ran the former

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was Team RadioShack's initial overall managerCyclingNews.com
"Team RadioShack finalizes 2010 roster"
Cycling News, 2009-11-23. Retrieved on 2009-12-23. and Dirk Demol was the

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. Former Discovery Channel cyclists

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from Russia and

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from Portugal was also part of the managerial squad. Armstrong said that the team would promote the

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anti-cancer campaigns of his

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, and will also be sponsored by

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and

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sportswear.
The team ceased to exist in its current structure from the end of the 2011 season as Radioshack returned their World Tour Licence to the UCI. Their two main sponsors, RadioShack and Nissan, moved their sponsorship to Team Leopard Trek. Sporting Director Johan Bruyneel moved to the newly named RadioShack-Nissan team along with several of the current Radioshack riders. While effectively a merge, there is some debate between the two teams as to the nature of the agreement. Radioshack described it as a merge, while Flavio Becca, owner of Leopard Trek stated that his team was continuing, and simply taking over Radioshacks sponsors, and some of their riders. The new team was registered in Luxembourg with the

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Team history

2010

On November 25, 2009, The UCI ProTour Council (UPTC) announced that the team was successfully registered for the 2010 season The team's final 2010 team roster includes 26 riders from 16 countries, after Japanese rider

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joined in February. Demol and twelve of the riders were previously with the Kazakh team in the UCI ProTour, including eight of the team's nine riders on the winning team in the

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. In April 2010

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was suspended by the team after failing a doping test. The team had planned on racing in the

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and the

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, among other races, but it controversially was not invited to the Vuelta. Team RadioShack went on to achieve the team victory of the 2010 Tour de France, while leading the team classification after about half its stages. It was the second time that an American team had won the team classification, preceded by

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in 2007. After the Tour de France, the team promoted

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and

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from the Trek-Livestrong U23 team and Clinton Avery from the PWS Eijssen team to the RadioShack roster as "stagiaires" ("trainees" in French) for the remainder of the season.

2011

The 2011 season for began in January at the

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, and ended in October with

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's participation in the Noosa Grand Prix. As a

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, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the

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. While the team had 28 wins in 2011, and showed well enough to briefly be the leading team in the

rankings, they were nearly invisible in the

, the races which have defined manager

's managerial career. A

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besieged by crashes and injuries led to

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in 15th place being their best finisher, the worst showing for a Bruyneel-led team at the Tour in five years. The team's principal successes were the three major stage races in the United States, the

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, the

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, and the

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. Team RadioShack fielded the overall winner in all three events,

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in California and

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in Utah and Colorado. The team also won seven other stage races, easily the most of any major team on the season.

2011 team roster

As at December 31, 2011.

2012 Bontrager-Livestrong U23 team roster

As of December 31, 2012.

List of wins

;2010 : Stage 4

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Portuguese rider classification,

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:: Teams classification : Teams classification

Giro di Sardegna Giro di Sardegna (Tour of Sardinia) was a stage road bicycle race held on the island of Sardinia, an Italian region. It was rated 2.1 on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were ...

Youth classification

Critérium International The Critérium International was a two-day Stage (bicycle race), bicycle stage race held in France every spring from 1932 until 2016, typically the last weekend of March. It was formerly known as the Critérium National de la Route, first run in ...

:: Teams classification : Stage 2b

Circuit de la Sarthe The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 H ...

: Overall

Tour of the Basque Country The Tour of the Basque Country (Officially: ''Itzulia Basque Country'') is an annual road cycling stage race held in the Spanish Basque Country in April. It is one of the races that make up the UCI World Tour calendar. As the Basque Country is ...

::Stage 6,

: Brabantse Pijl,

: Teams classification,

Vuelta a Castilla y León The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, it has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions ...

: Teams classification,

Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. It ...

: Overall

Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...

::Stage 1,

: Stage 5

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Ben Hermans Ben Hermans (born 8 June 1986) is a Belgian former road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2009 to 2024. Career Hermans was born in Hasselt, Flanders, and he turned professional in 2009 with . Hermans left at the end of the ...

: Teams classification

Tour de Luxembourg The Tour de Luxembourg is an annual stage race in professional road bicycle racing held in Luxembourg. The Tour de Luxembourg is classified as a UCI race classifications, 2.Pro race, the highest rating below the UCI World Tour, World Tour, by the ...

: Overall

Critérium du Dauphiné The Critérium du Dauphiné, before 2010 known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, is an annual cycle sport, cycling road bicycle racing, road race in the Dauphiné region in the southeast of France. The race is run over eight days during ...

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::Stage 4,

: Teams classification

Tour of Austria The Tour of Austria () is a stage race, stage cycling race held in Austria. From 1949 to 1995 it was a race for amateur cyclists, turning into a professional event in 1996. In 2005 and 2006 it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour ...

: Teams classification

::Stage 10, Sergio Paulinho : Overall Jersey yellow

Tour de l'Ain Tour de l'Ain, also known as the Prix de l'Amitié, is an annual professional cycling stage race held in eastern France. G.P. de l'Amitié The first edition of the race was in 1970, as the G.P. de l'Amitié (Friendship G.P.). It was held over f ...

::Prologue,

: Overall

::Prologue,

::Stage 3,

: Stage 4

Tour du Poitou-Charentes Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a road bicycle race held annually in the former region of Poitou-Charentes (now Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France. It was first held in 1987 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI E ...

, Markel Irizar : Prologue

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir () is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independents. Felice Gimondi, Joo ...

: Leadville Trail 100 MTB,

: National Time Trial championships,

: World U23 Road Race championships,

;2011 : Trofeo Inca-inca,

: Tour De Mumbai II, Robbie Hunter : Overall Jersey red

Vuelta a Andalucía Ruta ciclista del Sol, Markel Irizar : Overall Jersey yellow

Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen Dwars door West-Vlaanderen is a road bicycle race through the Belgian province of West Flanders. History The race was originally created unter the name Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen (''English'': Tour of the Flemish Ardennes) in 1945 as a one-day ...

::Prologue

: Stage 5

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional road bicycle racing, cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the ...

, Andréas Klöden : Stage 4 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, Manuel Cardoso : Stage 3

, Andréas Klöden : Overall Jersey green

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: Overall

, Andréas Klöden : Stage 1

Giro del Trentino The Tour of the Alps is an annual professional cycling stage race in Italy and Austria. First held in 1962, it was named Giro del Trentino () until 2016, and run over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region of Italy. In 2015, th ...

, Andréas Klöden : Overall Jersey yellow

Amgen Tour of California,

::Stage 4,

::Stage 7,

: National Road Race championships, Matthew Busche : National Time Trial championships,

: Overall

Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse () is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France, which is on the calend ...

: National Time Trial championships, Nelson Oliveira : National Road Racec championships,

: National Time Trial championships,

: Stage 1

, Robert Hunter : Stage 4

Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium in the end of July. Between 1974 and 1995 it was reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a ...

: Stage 5

Eneco Tour The Benelux Tour (previously known as the Eneco Tour and the BinckBank Tour) is a road bicycle racing stage-race that is part of the UCI World Tour. The race was established in 2005 and was originally known as the Eneco Tour, named after the ori ...

: Overall

::Stages 1 & 3,

: Overall

::Stage 4,

: Overall

Tour de Wallonie-Picarde,

::Stages 1 & 4,

Supplementary statistics

Sources

National championships

;2010 ::

USA Road Race Ben King :: MaillotUSA

USA Time Trial

U23 World Road Race

;2011 :: Japan Road Race

:: Japan Time Trial

USA Road Race Matthew Busche :: MaillotEslovenia

Slovenia Time Trial

Portugal Time Trial Nelson Oliveira

References

External links

*
UCI Team Profile

Building the Team RadioShack Trek Madone
on

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