It’s official: One Pro Cycling will be Great Britain’s first-ever Pro Continental team. The young-but-ambitious new program, founded this year by former England cricketer Matt Prior, announced the news today after learning that the UCI accepted their application.
"We’re incredibly excited to finally have confirmation that ONE Pro Cycling will be racing on a Pro Conti licence in 2016,” Prior said in a team statement.
One Pro Cycling was not among the initial list of teams when the UCI announced them last month, but the team cleared up a 'paperwork hiccup' and got the approval they needed to move forward.
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“It’s been a whirlwind journey from when we first initially decided to set up the team to then get to where we are now," Prior said. "As most people will know, we’re an ambitious team and after a strong debut season racing in Britain we were in no doubt of where we wanted to be next season.”
Racing their inaugural season this year as a Continental team, One Pro Cycling notched three UCI wins from Marcin Bialoblocki of Poland and Peter Williams of Great Britain. Both riders will return on 2016’s expanded new roster, along with six other riders from the 2015 team.
One Pro Cycling also added experienced talent such as Matthew Goss and Steele Von Hoff to mix in with promising Kiwis James Oram, Dion Smith and Hayden McCormick.
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