News from the successor team of the dismantled Liberty Seguros: Not Mario Kummer, who was new team advisor Walter Godefroot's favourite, but former pro Laurent Dufaux will become one of the directeurs sportifs at the Kazakh team Astana. The 37 year-old Swiss, who will join a team managed by former race director Marc Biver, has much experience in the Tour de France as he finished fourth overall in 1996 and in 1999. He also was one of the riders that were expelled from the Tour in 1998, together with his other Festina teammates.
