The Kazakhstan’s Astana Team will have Pro Tour license for 4 years. They had some problems with the date when they gave all the documents to be Pro Tour but the UCI Licence Commission has extended the dead line to 20th of December so the team will be Pro Tour next year.
That is a good news for cycling world, due to the fact that Astana has in his team riders such, Vinokourov,(winer of La Vuelta), Savoldelli (2 times winer of Giro di Italia), Kloden (3th in this year´s Tour of France) and Andrey Kashechkin, (3th in last Vuelta)
So the team will prepare his objectives to 2007 season.
They will probably fight for the 3 big tours, Giro with Paolo Savoldelli, Tour with Kloden and Vinokourov, and La Vuelta with Kasechkin and maybe Vinokourov. They will fight for same classics like, Lieje-Bastogne-Lieje, Amstel Gold Race..with “Vino”