By Neal Rogers

Velo News

The UCI is requiring organizers of the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge to reshuffle its team lineup to honor a rule prohibiting teams under common ownership from participating in the same event. The result is that the Dutch ProTeam Rabobank and a pair of Colombian squads are now on the start list for the Colorado race, while the race rescinded invitations it had issued to American under-23 development teams Trek-Livestrong and Chipotle.

“We are very happy to be coming to Colorado in August,” said Rabobank manager Erik Breukink. “We’ve been hearing the buzz that has built up around this race and we realize that this is one we do not want to miss.”

The shake up brings the total number of teams competing to 17, including eight ProTeam squads, four Pro Continental teams and five Continental teams.

Filling the absence left behind Trek-Livestrong and Chipotle, USA Pro Cycling Challenge invited two Colombian teams, EPM-UNE and the Gobernacion De Atioquia-Indeportes Antiqula squad of Oscar Sevilla, José Enrique Gutiérrez and team director Santiago Botero — three riders who left behind lucrative European careers after their involvement in the 2006 Operacion Puerto doping scandal.

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Confirmed teams:

ProTeam
BMC Racing (USA)
Garmin-Cervélo (USA)
RadioShack (USA)
HTC-Highroad (USA)
Liquigas-Cannondale (Italy)
Leopard-Trek (Luxembourg)
Rabobank (The Netherlands)
Saxo Bank-SunGard (Denmark)

Pro Continental
Skil-Shimano (The Netherlands)
SpiderTech-C10 (Canada)
Team Type 1-Sanofi (USA)
UnitedHealthcare (USA)

Continental
Bissell (USA)
Exergy (USA)
Jelly Belly-Kenda (USA)
EPM-UNE (Colombia)
Gobernacion de Antioquia (Colombia)