Flexpoint and Vrienden van het Platteland merge

Mirjam Melchers-van Poppel (Team Flexpoint) will be the captain of the new uber-team

Mirjam Melchers-van Poppel (Team Flexpoint) will be the captain of the new uber-team (Image credit: Bert Geerts)

The two women's teams Flexpoint and Vrienden van het Platteland will merge together for the 2009 season. This will make it the biggest women's team in the Netherlands. The agreement is supposed to run at least until the Olympic Games in 2012.