With the Alberto Contador Foundation taking up management of the new Polartec-Kometa Continenteal team, which will act as a feeder program for Trek-Segafredo, it's no surprise that the 11-rider roster is heavy with talented young Spanish riders.
Polartec-Kometa is the next step for Contador's foundation, which started in 2013 and already operates a cycling school for children, a junior team and a U23 team.
Along with two riders from Italy and one rider each from Austria, Eritrea, Netherlands, Colombia and Luxembourg, the Continental team features reigning Spanish U23 champion Isaac Cantón, Miguel Angel Ballesteros, Juan Camacho and Diego Pablo Sevilla.
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Cyclingnews spoke with each of the team's Spanish riders at the recent team camp in Tucson, Arizona, where title sponsor Polartec brought riders from the Continental team as well as others from the foundation's junior and U23 teams for a brief get together and several training rides.
Miguel Angel Ballesteros, 21
Ballesteros was the Spanish junior champion in 2010 when he was 15 and has been riding with the Alberto Contador Foundation since joining the U23 squad in 2015. The rider from Murcia in southeast Spain said the call from Fran Contador to join the U23 team took him by surprise.
“At the beginning I thought it was a joke,” he told Cyclingnews, “but in the end it was true.”
Juan Camacho, 22
Isaac Cantón, 21
Diego Pablo Sevilla, 21
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