48-year-old Davide Rebellin has founded a new continental-level team, the Cambodian Cycling Academy, after the E-Powers Factory Team, which was to ride at the professional continental level next season, failed to meet the financial demands of the UCI It is reported that.
SpazioCiclismo reports that Rebellin will be the eighth rider to sign with the Cambodian Cycling Academy project, and the team will be led by Patrick Aurignac, who was also on the Sovac team Rebellin was on in 2018 He was involved, but left at the end of April this season by mutual agreement.
Since May of this year, Rebellin has been riding for the Continental Meridiana Kamen team, which he was also part of in 2012, and announced that his last race before retirement would be the Italian national championship road race on June 30, finishing 30th. After a break, however, Rebellin resumed racing with the same team at the Coppa Agostini in September, finishing 18th, and finished the season at the Coppa Bernocchi and Trofeo Matteotti later that month.
The Italian's long professional career, which started in 1992 with GB-MG, included careers with Porti, La Française de Joux, and Gerolsteiner, and in 2004 with Amstel Gold, Flèche Wallonne, and Liege-Bastogne-Liege " Ardennes Triple" in the same week.
In 2009, he tested positive for CERA, a third-generation EPO preparation, in the Beijing Olympic road race and was banned for two years.
He returned to racing in 2011 with the Miche-Guerciotti team and has since raced for the CCC-Splandi Pro Continental team and the Continental-affiliated teams Kuwait-Calcho, Sovac, and Meridiana Kamen.
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