Botero signs with Rock & Republic
Botero signs with Rock & Republic
By Antonio J. Salmerón
Santiago Botero will join the ranks of American National Racing Calendar
squad Rock & Republic Racing in 2008, the Colombian's coach Raúl Mesa
has told press.
The news means the Colombian National Time Trial Champion will leave
the UNE Orbitel team, where he raced this season having spent the previous
year at the now defunct Phonak squad. The team is hoping to be invited
to contest the Tour of California and the Tour of Georgia next season
after persuading Botero, who originally wanted to race in his homeland,
to ride with the North American squad.
"The Colombian races lost an extraordinary rider, but the Colombian cycling
will continue getting better outside here with Santiago Botero," Mesa
commented on the subject.
The Vuelta a Colombia winner will join countrymen Victor Hugo Peña and
César Grajales. The 35 year-old rider plans to finish his professional
career in the Beijing Olympic Games for 2008.