Bjarne Riis, former Team Saxo-Tinkoff boss and Tour de France winner, and former Saxo Bank co-CEO Lars Seier Christensen address a news conference in the Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen, Denmark, February 25, 2016. REUTERS/Nils Meilvang/Scanpix Denmark
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis and Lars Seier Christensen, co-owner of online forex brokerage Saxo Bank, have become part of the group of owners of the Danish third-tier cycling team Team Virtu Pro-Veloconcept.
The team will act as a development team to an outfit they hope will have the World Tour (elite) status in 2018, they said at a press meeting in Copenhagen on Thursday.
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