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Giant and Liv to partner with new CCC Team and CCC-Liv

Greg Van Avermaet and Marianne Vos on new machines for 2019

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Marianne Vos (Team Rabobank Liv Giant). Credit: Anton Vos/Wessel van Keuk/Cor Vos

In the same week that Sunweb announced that it was swapping from Giant bicycles to Canadian Cervélo outfit, Giant Bicycles and Liv Cycling revealed that it’s partnering with the new incarnation of CCC Team. In the WorldTour, CCC Team is an amalgamation of the Polish Pro continental CCC Sprandi Polkowice squad and U.S.A.-registered WorldTour BMC team. Giant and Liv’s partnership also extends to the elite women’s CCC-Liv Team and under-23 men’s CCC Development Team.

Giant has been supplying bikes to professional teams going back to high-powered ONCE in the 1990s.

The three outfits will assist Giant and Liv in testing the company’s bicycles and racing gear.

The women’s team raced as WaowDeals Pro Cycling this season, WM3 Energie in 2017 and Rabobank-Liv for three years before that. Marianne Vos, who led the 2018 Women’s WorldTour before leaving the road early to concentrate on cyclocross, and South African Ashleigh Moolman will be the key riders at CCC-Liv.

Marianne Vos will continue to be the backbone of CCC-Liv, called WaowDeals Pro Cycling in 2018.

CCC Team has retained only three riders from 2018 CCC Sprandi Polkowice for next season, including Portuguese climber Amaro Antunes, and seven BMC fellows, with Olympic Games road champion Greg Van Avermaet the most crucial. Spaniard Victor de la Parte and Serge Pauwel will be riding Giants after transferring over from Movistar and Dimension Data respectively. There’s no indication whether CCC Team will retain the distinctive orange kit of CCC Sprandi Polkowice.

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Greg Van Avermaet wins the Olympic men’s road in Rio 2016. Credit: VK/PN/Cor Vos