Jeroen Blijlevens has said he is happy for a second chance as directeur sportif of the WM3 Pro Cycling Team. Blijlevens was one of the team’s controversial appointments, when he was named last November.
The Dutchman, a former rider, was a directeur sportif at the Rabobank women’s team and the men’s Belkin squad. However, he left the sport following his confession about using EPO during his racing career.
Speaking to omroepbrabant.nl at the team presentation on Tuesday, Blijlevens said, “I’m glad to get a second chance,” he said. “It was taken away from me, of course, that was my fault. You've always walking around with it. It felt like a liberation that I was able to tell, but it's not been a nice time. I can now do something to the other side. If you see signs, you have to ask questions right away.”
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VéloConcept women to ride Cervélo in 2017
VéloConcept women and their male counterparts will ride Cervélo bikes for the forthcoming season, the team has confirmed. Rumours emerged in December that a deal had been done and the team has published photographs of the riders on Cervélo bikes but only on Wednesday did they make the deal official.
VéloConcept, which was previously BMS BIRN, is the latest cycling project for Bjarne Riis, who owned the CSC/Saxo Bank squad, and Lars Seier Christensen, the co-founder of the Saxo Bank company. Riders for the team include Carman Small, Sara Mustonen and time trial world champion Amber Neben.
Riis worked with Cervélo between 2003 and 2008 before the company set out to create the Cervélo Test Team for the 2009 season. Cervélo already supply bikes to the Cervélo-Bigla women’s team.
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