Rathe and Howes join Garmin-Cervelo

Jacob Rathe and Alex Howes will ride for Garmin-Cervelo in 2012, moving up from the team’s U23 development team. Both riders have penned two-year contracts with Jonathan Vaughters’ WorldTour team.

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