Muravyev out of Astana, Stangelj in

Saul Raisin (US) and Dmitriy Muravyev (Kazakhstan)

Saul Raisin (US) and Dmitriy Muravyev (Kazakhstan) (Image credit: Mark Johnson)

The comings and goings at Astana continue with the news that Kazakh rider Dmitriy Muravyev has decided to leave the team from his home country and take up an offer to follow Johan Bruyneel, Lance Armstrong, and many others to Radio Shack.

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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