LIV RACING

Established 2006 Team Manager Eric van den Boom Bike Liv

Liv Racing are certain to stand out in the peloton this year, with their new floral, purple kit significantly different from anything else the other teams are racing in. With CCC pulling out their sponsorship last year, the Polish team turned to its long-time bike sponsor as its headline backer. For the last eight years, Marianne Vos has been the undoubted talisman of the team, but with the Dutchwoman among the seven riders who departed this winter - as well as Ashleigh Moolman - the team will have a new feel in 2021. Belgian road and time trial champion Lotte Kopecky moves up to the WorldTour after five years with Lotto Soudal, and after one of her best years to date which saw her finish the season with a quartet of top-four results at her home classics. In this form, Kopecky will go into the spring races as one of the favourites, with Flanders (she was third in 2020) and Roubaix among the races on her radar. Canadian Alison Jackson, 31, is the team’s only other signing as it completes its roster at just 10 riders.