NTT Pro Cycling and manager Riis part ways
Dane’s relationship with team was a bitter pill to swallow for some given his doping background
11 November 2020 - 15:52
While Doug Ryder is hopeful his NTT Pro Cycling team will be racing in 2021, Wednesday’s announcement that he will do so without the assistance of Bjarne Riis has not come as the biggest of surprises.
It was confirmed that Riis has stepped down as manager of the team by “mutual consent” just more than a week after he was asked by Danish newspaper EkstraBladet whether he thought the team would get a new sponsor and replied: “No, not really. As it looks right now, there is not a team with me at the helm next year. That’s the situation. ..
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