Sanchez moves from Caisse d'Epargne to Rabobank

Alexandre Vinokourov, Luis Leon Sanchez, Carlos Sastre, Clasica an Sebastian 2010

Despite a win yesterday at the Vuelta a España, Spain's longest running team Caisse d'Epargne is struggling along. It lost last year's Vuelta winner Alejandro Valverde to a doping suspension mid-season, suffered to find a replacement sponsor and, yesterday, received the news that its top rider, Luis León Sánchez will join Dutch team Rabobank.

Sánchez officially informed the team with a press release. He wrote, "I want to begin a new stage in my career."

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Gregor Brown

Gregor Brown is an experienced cycling journalist, based in Florence, Italy. He has covered races all over the world for over a decade - following the Giro, Tour de France, and every major race since 2006. His love of cycling began with freestyle and BMX, before the 1998 Tour de France led him to a deep appreciation of the road racing season.