Pereiro explains reasons behind Astana move

2006 Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro explains move to Astana for 2010.

2006 Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro explains move to Astana for 2010. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Spain's Oscar Pereiro has revealed the reasons behind his decision to sign for Astana, admitting he didn’t want his career to end with him quitting at a feed zone in the Pyrenees during this year’s Tour de France.

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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