last year, nearly 40-year-old Lars Bak's offer to continue his career in a service car as sports director, but only now has the popular rider thanks. He continues his career in the sport as the assistant sports director at the south african Team NTT, if the local profile is now to be further strengthened.
Lars Michaelsen has joined as senior sports director and the riders-Michael Valgren and Andreas Stokbro is ready to crank out the team - which may also come under the overall Danish management, if the rumor about Bjarne Riis' took on the team speaks the truth.
I can't comment, because I do not know anything about. Everything there is about the organization of the team, you must talk with the team management about it, says Lars Bak to Ekstra Bladet.
the News of the Baks the recruitment of the team as sports director was announced in a press release Friday. Herein, the roses Lars Michaelsen his former team-mate, always have been constructive in relation to the challenges he has faced as a rider in a long, professional career.
- the Essence of the job as sports director is to be able to see the next day's race from the team's perspective, and it has Lars Bak always been able to, " says Michaelsen.
Lars Bak rode in June her last DM. It took place in Esbjerg. Photo: Ernst van Norde.
Bak has been the assistant sports director, since he does not need to work full time, but quietly in the minor race moves into his new career, in which he in the first instance must learn the profession. Last year offered his long-standing sports director of Lotto-Soudal, Mark Sergeant, him a job as sports director in 2019, but the Bak refused.
- I would have one last season with as a rider. It is important, I think, that a rider decide when it is over, and I am very glad that I got this season with, say Bak to Ekstra Bladet.
Monday meet Team NTT - as this season has been the Team Dimension Data in Oliva in Spain for a ten days long training camp. The overall team and the entire staff in the days to lay down løbsprogrammer and the course of the coming season.
Bjarne Riis also meet up, ancestry, Bak nothing about, he says.
- I am employed by Doug Ryder, the team's owner, red.). I have spoken with him since the Tour de France, when I announced that I would set his career as a rider, and he has expressed a desire that I continued on the team, says Bak.
- There have been some things that had to fall into place, and so it has taken some time, but now I'm here, and I am delighted to get started.
- It is a whole new life for me, and it gets a little strange meeting all the sports director and not as a rider. But it will be exciting, says Bak.
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