Dominique participera � sa premi�re course d'importance avec sa nouvelle �quipe iTeamNova.com lors du Tour de Langkawi, qui sera disput� en Malaisie du 1 au 10 f�vrier 2002.

Voici les informations publi�es � cet effet sur Cyclingnews.

(Auparavant, il aura compl�t� sa pr�paration en prenant part � la course sur route de 180 km des Australian Open Championships le 13 janvier).

iTeamNova.com line-up
New Australian squad iteamNova.com is one of the first to announce its line-up for the Tour de Langkawi.

IteamNova.com will be led at Langkawi by David McKenzie, who won stage three of the race back in 1999. The following year saw McKenzie win the seventh stage of the Tour of Italy, after which he was named Australian Cyclist of the Year. Despite his troubles with the ill-fated McCartney team, Melbourne-born McKenzie took eight victories in 2001, including a stage of the Tour Down Under and the Grafton to Inverell Classic and the Melbourne to Warrnambool race.

Jamie Drew is another rider making a return trip to Malaysia having won Stage two of the 2000 Tour de Langkawi. In the same year Drew was Australian road champion and won the prestigious Mi Aout Series.

New Zealander Scott Guyton is a strong climber whose 2001 season was disrupted when he broke his wrist in a racing crash. However, he came back later in the year to finish eighth in the Tour of Japan.

Russell Downing from England is an aggressive competitor with a fast finishing sprint, Downing raced successfully in France last year scoring 10 victories.

Former Australian road champion Alan Iacuone, who finished third in the Tour de Langkawi in 1999, is making a comeback to the sport after taking a year out. Still only 27, he says the opportunity of racing with an Australian pro' team was too good to miss.

Trent Wilson from Sydney is a rising star on the Australian scene. One of the younger riders in the team at 23, he scored six top-10 placings in Italy during 2001.

Canadian Dominique Perras, completes the iTeamNova.com line-up. An excellent time climber he campaigned in Switzerland last season, wearing the King of the Mountains jersey in the Tour of Romandie.

Managing the team will be former British road racing star Sean Yates who competed at the highest level in Europe for 16 seasons, winning stages in the Tour de France and Tour of Spain and wearing the yellow jersey of the Tour de France. In December 2001, he was voted into fifth place in a British cycling magazine's poll of the 50 top British cyclists of all time.

Yates's know-how will be invaluable to the team which will be competing in Europe after the Tour de Langkawi.

une page mise � jour le 8 janvier 2002 par SVP