Rabo Cycling presents ambitions, women's team

 　　UTRECHT, the Netherlands, Dec. 6(Xinhua) -- The Rabo Cycling teams for 2012 were presented on Tuesday at the head-quarters of sponsor Rabobank in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

　　Besides the Pro¹ Team, the Continental² Team and the Offroad Team, a women's team, was added.

　　The new women's team was built around Dutch cycling star Marianne Vos, who won Olympic gold on the points race on track during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

　　Since the points race is not part of the 2012 Games, Vos will focus on the road race and the time trial in London. Another main goal of hers is the World Championships cycling in the Dutch province of Limburg (September 15-23, 2012).

　　"It's really important to be part of a big organization now," Vos told Xinhua. "Everything is very well organized. All the combined knowhow will have so many benefits, they know so many details, we can work with the best materials and learn from each other.

　　"I hope it's going to make our team better, but it will also take women's cycling to another level. At the moment I think Rabobank is the only one with all those teams combined. That makes it unique."

　　Former cyclist Erik Breukink is technical director of the Rabo Cycling teams. Regarding the Pro Team, which consists of 27 riders, he has high expectations, despite Oscar Freire, Pieter Weening and Sebastian Langeveld having left the team.

　　Mark Renshaw, Jetse Bol and Wilco Kelderman are the new faces. Breuking expects improvement from talented Dutch riders Robert Gesink (25), Bauke Mollema (25), Steven Kruijswijk (24) and Lars Boom³ (25).

　　"We have a big team with riders for different goals," Breukink said. "Some riders will go for the classics, we want to win a big classic, some riders will go for the big tours.

　　"The most important race is the Tour de France, in which we are aiming for a stage win and good general classifications. With Gesink and Mollema we already have two guys who proved themselves. Kruijswijk already finished ninth in the Giro d'Italia.

　　"Another big goal is the World Championships in our own country, with a new event, the team time trial," he said.

1 pro   

n.赞成，赞成的意见，赞成者

参考例句：

• The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
• Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军？

2 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。

3 boom   

n.隆隆声；vt.发隆隆声

参考例句：

• The country is having a great boom in industry.这个国家的工业正蓬勃发展。
• Boom!Boom!Boom!A series of explosions shook the valley.轰！轰！轰！一连串爆破声震撼山谷。