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Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 11th January 2010 - HTC-Columbia's training camp in Mallorca entered its third full day on Monday with the nineteen riders completing their training schedules despite the bad weather. "We delayed the start by an hour because it was wet and cold but that was the only change to the day's program," said HTC-Columbia team manager Rolf Aldag. "There was no point in risking them getting ill because of the weather." The main aim of the HTC-Columbia training camp, Aldag says, is "very straightforward. We have a big day for our partners and the media on Tuesday and we'll pay a lot of attention to that, but we're also here to get on with riding our bikes."


photo by Tim de Waele/tdwsport.com

The team has already done a lot of the groundwork for the 2010 season with a training camp in Lanzarote in December. According to Aldag this second camp is more focussed on bringing the riders' race fitness up another level. "Lanzarote was about everybody, old and new guys on the team, getting to know each other. We had big apartments with six riders in each, instead of the usual double rooms. Now we want to get the riders in shape for the upcoming races and give them a strong base for the whole season."


photo by Tim de Waele/tdwsport.com

"Today we moved the start to training forward an hour, but we did a big work load yesterday [Sunday], riding for an hour longer yesterday because the weather forecast for Monday was so bad. Even so, they all completed between four and five hours, one group working with the time trial bikes. As it's only the third full day of training, it was still all fairly straightforward."


Marco Pinotti discussing where to go / photo by Tim de Waele/tdwsport.com

On Monday the HTC-Columbia women's squad joined the training camp. "This is one of the few chances we get to have the full team here together," Aldag points out, "and that's an advantage to the camp for both the riders and the staff. It's also an ideal opportunity for our partners to collaborate with our staff before the start of the 2010 season."


new on board for 2010: The Velits Brothers / photo by Tim de Waele/tdwsport.com

Roster 2010 Men:                             

Michael Albasini (SUI)
Lars Bak (DEN)
Mark Cavendish (GBR)
Gert Dockx (BEL)
Bernhard Eisel (AUT)
Jan Ghyselinck (BEL)
Matthew Goss (AUS)
Bert Grabsch (GER)
Andre Greipel (GER)
Patrick Gretsch (GER)
Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN)
Adam Hansen (AUS)
Leigh Howard (AUS)
Craig Lewis (USA)
Tony Martin (GER)
Maxime Monfort (BEL)
Marco Pinotti (ITA)
Frantisek Rabon (CZE)
Mark Renshaw (AUS)
Vicente Reynes (ESP)
Michael Rogers (AUS)
Hayden Roulston (NZL)
Aleksejs Saramotins (LAT)
Marcel Sieberg (GER)
Kanstanstin Sivtsov (BLR)
Tejay van Garderen (USA)
Peter Velits (SVK)
Martin Velits (SVK)

Roster 2010 Women:

Kim Anderson (USA)
Judith Arndt (GER)
Noemi Canele (ITA)
Emilia Fahlin (SWE)
Chloe Hosking (AUS)
Luise Keller (GER)
Evelyn Stevens (USA)
Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (GER)
Ellen van Dijk (NED)
Linda Villumsen (DEN)
Adrie Visser (NED)

The HTC-Columbia Mallorca training camp started on January 8th and finishes on January 20th.
For more information on Team HTC-Columbia, please visit www.highroadsports.com