German road race champion Christian Knees has signed up with British-based Team Sky after Pegasus Racing failed to secure a ride in cycling's top league.
Knees, 29, had signed up to the ambitious Australian Pegasus Racing outfit late last season having ridden for Milram since 2006, but sought to find a new squad for 2011 after Pegasus failed to first gain a ProTeam licence and then a Professional Continental place from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
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Live coverage returns: Watch Unbound Gravel's elite races free on YouTubeOn May 31, the elite men’s and women’s 200-mile Unbound Gravel races will be broadcast live, in full, to a global audience
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'I’ve already won the 200, so what else could I do?' — Lachlan Morton takes on 350-mile XL at Unbound Gravel“I already had the experience I wanted to have there...so, why not just try something different?” says the Australian.
