Astana start their post-Contador rebuild

Robert Kiserlovski (Liquigas-Doimo) celebrates his Giro dell'Appennino victory, the Croatian's first win in three years.

Robert Kiserlovski (Liquigas-Doimo) celebrates his Giro dell'Appennino victory, the Croatian's first win in three years. (Image credit: Riccardo Scanferla)

With team leader Alberto Contador set for the exit and likely to take four Spanish team-mates with him, Astana have started their rebuilding process by signing Robert Kiserlovski from Liquigas. The 24-year-old Croat, who finished 10th on his Giro d'Italia debut in May, has signed a two-year deal with the Kazakh team.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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