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Team Cannondale rider Ted King doesn’t have a contract for next season yet, with teams filling up rosters from an increased pool of talented riders to choose from.
Here is what he recently told Cycling News:
“I’m still in the contract hunt. It’s a tough year. It’s nice to see things like [Formula 1 star Fernando] Alonso coming in and salvaging a team, but there’s a lot of talk of a few teams folding and a lot of teams shrinking. So that certainly puts a lot of people out on the market.”
It’s true that King will face a larger amount of other riders seeking contracts in the ProTour peloton, but he’s a very good domestique when working for others. For both Team Liquigas and now Cannondale, King has done a great job working on the front of the peloton, namely working for Peter Sagan.
Poor King crashed during stage 1 of the 2013 Tour de France, and then was time cut from the stage 4 team time trial when he missed the cut by a mere five seconds. Even worse, his family just landed in France to follow his first crack at the biggest cycling race of the year.
(Image Courtesy: Team Cannondale)
