GENEVA (AP) — Track cycling world champion Taylor Phinney has been promoted to ride for Lance Armstrong’s Team RadioShack for the rest of the road race season.
The 20-year-old American will step up from Armstrong’s Trek-Livestrong development squad to compete in the Aug. 4-8 Tour of Denmark.
Team manager Johan Bruyneel said Thursday he was giving Phinney and teammates Jesse Sergent and Clinton Avery the opportunity to ride in stage and one-day races in France and Belgium over the next two months.
Bruyneel said the promotion “can lead to something permanent” on the 2011 roster.
Phinney is a two-time pursuit world champion on the track, and won the past two under-23 editions of the famed Paris-Roubaix event which races over cobblestones.
