New Pro Continental team hopes to replace Euskaltel-Euskadi as the 'model for Basque cycling'

Murias Taldea was officially presented this week with the aim of becoming the new model for young riders in the Basque region of Spain

With Euskaltel-Euskadi officially closing down operations at the end of the 2013 season (and having failed to be saved by Fernando Alonso), it looked as though it might be a while before we saw the likes of them again.

But a new UCI Pro Continental Basque team, Murias Taldea, was officially presented last weekend in Barakaldo, with the hope it can take over - as the team management put it -  as a new "model for Basque cycling".

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