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He is not on a Conti team registered in the EU
He has not raced in Spain this year
Just fyi, CQ will NOT be your friend on this one.
He has not raced in Spain this year
Just fyi, CQ will NOT be your friend on this one.
Diego Milán indeed!
His story is a bit of a curio. He eschewed the typical way for a Spanish rider to go pro, jumping to Italy as a 22-year-old to race for Acqua e Sapone. When they didn't renew him, he did some moonlighting for the national team, but largely he went and travelled to Latin America to race, and was most successful in the Dominican Republic, where he stayed for a while, and met a woman he later married. After a year with Caja Rural in 2011, he again wasn't renewed and split time between the Dominican Republic and Spain, where he raced amateur for Gomur-Ferroatlántica. He acquired a Dominican licence at the end of 2012 and started racing representing them. After a couple of years racing in Luxembourg for Team Differdange (!), he and former Contentpolis-Ampo and Andalucía-Caja Sur pro Adrián Palomares, who'd also spent some time in the Spanish Caribbean post-retirement, came up with the idea of a Dominican development team in the style of those teams you sometimes see in the Spanish péloton, a mixture of Spanish riders at the lower pro level and outsiders riding for development, and he became the team captain and Palomares became the DS and team manager, as well as bringing in a few of his old teammates from Gomur. Riding for the Dominican Republic has given him the opportunity to ride the Olympics as well as the Pan-American Games. As well as getting a sweet-as-all-hell national champion's kit into the bargain.
The Inteja team he helped found don't have a Continental licence this year, but I assume that's simply that the season was called off before their first trip to Europe of the season, because people often sign up mid-season for the Continental level as it doesn't have the same requirements on bank guarantees and biopassport eligibility as the higher levels. With the Dominican national tour, the Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, not being a UCI race this year, they didn't need it.
His story is a bit of a curio. He eschewed the typical way for a Spanish rider to go pro, jumping to Italy as a 22-year-old to race for Acqua e Sapone. When they didn't renew him, he did some moonlighting for the national team, but largely he went and travelled to Latin America to race, and was most successful in the Dominican Republic, where he stayed for a while, and met a woman he later married. After a year with Caja Rural in 2011, he again wasn't renewed and split time between the Dominican Republic and Spain, where he raced amateur for Gomur-Ferroatlántica. He acquired a Dominican licence at the end of 2012 and started racing representing them. After a couple of years racing in Luxembourg for Team Differdange (!), he and former Contentpolis-Ampo and Andalucía-Caja Sur pro Adrián Palomares, who'd also spent some time in the Spanish Caribbean post-retirement, came up with the idea of a Dominican development team in the style of those teams you sometimes see in the Spanish péloton, a mixture of Spanish riders at the lower pro level and outsiders riding for development, and he became the team captain and Palomares became the DS and team manager, as well as bringing in a few of his old teammates from Gomur. Riding for the Dominican Republic has given him the opportunity to ride the Olympics as well as the Pan-American Games. As well as getting a sweet-as-all-hell national champion's kit into the bargain.
The Inteja team he helped found don't have a Continental licence this year, but I assume that's simply that the season was called off before their first trip to Europe of the season, because people often sign up mid-season for the Continental level as it doesn't have the same requirements on bank guarantees and biopassport eligibility as the higher levels. With the Dominican national tour, the Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, not being a UCI race this year, they didn't need it.
Armchair cyclist
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(Thank God for PCS and their list of "RIders who changed nationality".)
Born on an even numbered day? Yes
Born in an even numbered month? Yes
Born in an even numbered year? No
Born on an even numbered day? Yes
Born in an even numbered month? Yes
Born in an even numbered year? No
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