Bjarne Riis has long dreamed of again to have a cycling team at the top level, and now it can be on the way to go in the fulfillment.
In each case, has his cycling team convened a press conference at 15.00 on Wednesday.
– Virtu Cycling invites you to a press conference to tell the exciting news about the future.
– To the present will be, among others, the co-owner of Virtu Cycling, Bjarne Riis, and the Group CEO, Anders Gram, reads it, while it is not indicated specifically what the press conference is all about.
co-Owner Lars Seier has previously announced new on the road. It happened in his new year speech on Facebook.
I admit that it has taken longer than Bjarne Riis and I figured when we started the project in 2016, but it remains our goal to be at the highest level, when the tour starts in Copenhagen in 2021. I think there is a chance of good news during the month of January, but if not, it becomes difficult to achieve…, it sounded a week ago.
In the summer of 2019 announced Virtu Cycling, to the closed kvindeholdet down, but now it may turn out that it is only to bet even harder on the men.
Bjarne Riis was from 2001 to 2015, the figurehead of his own cycling team, which went under names such as CSC, Saxobank and finally Tinkoff. Here was the cooperation with the Russian musician Oleg Tinkov eventually too cumbersome, and Riis has been out of the absolute cykeltop.
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