Culver City, Calif. – Sprinter Ivan Dominguez has signed with Rock Racing after a five-month ProTour stint with Fuji-Servetto.

Dominguez initially signed with Rock Racing before the 2009 season, but left the team in early January to accept a spot with the new ProTour squad. His return to domestic racing was a personal decision, he said, based on a desire to be closer to his family and the races he loves.

“Racing in Europe was a great opportunity, but this is where I want to be,” Dominguez said. “(Rock Racing Team Owner) Michael Ball left the door open for me and I’m grateful for the chance to be a part of this team again.”

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Cuban sprinter Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) will ride in the new team FUJI-SERVETTO in 2009. As a result, Dominguez (Havana, 1976) will make his debut in European cycling, after a successful, vaste career across the American calendar for eight years, achieving nearly sixty wins, some of them in Hors Categorie races, such as the Tour de Georgia and the Amgen-Tour of California, in which he used his speed to outsprint a great part of the best specialists in the international peloton, always on a FUJI bike, the same he’ll use in his new team.

“I am very excited to join the FUJI-SERVETTO team”, Dominguez, who took advatage of an appearance with his national team to desert from his country and establish himself in the United States, admitted. “I am happy to race for Fuji-Servetto, a ProTour-level team. It has always been a dream to race inEurope at the Pro Tour level and I think I can win races with FUJI-SERVETTO.”

With this signing, FUJI-SERVETTO’s lineup is made for the time being by 21 riders, with some newcomers expected to join yet -Colombia’s Fabio Duarte will finally not be part of the team-: Alberto Benítez, Iker Camaño, David Cañada, Eros Capecchi, Ermanno Capelli, Juanjo Cobo, David de la Fuente, Jesús Del Nero, Iván Domínguez, Arkaitz Durán, Alberto Fernández de la Puebla, Ángel Litu Gómez, Héctor González, Beñat Intxausti, Josep Jufré, Javier Megías, Daniele Nardello, Ricardo Serrano, Andrea Tonti, Davide Vigano and William Walker.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to ride in a professional peloton? Well, now is your chance to ride with some of your favorite pros as part of the Cycling Sherpa program at California BikeFest. Cycling Sherpa are past and current professional cyclists who are ‘for hire’ for the rides in Ventura, California on Saturday, December 6, 2008 starting at the Crowne Plaza, Ventura Beach.

Cycling Sherpa are offering their domestique services to the highest bidder for the day, with all proceeds benefiting Breakaway from Cancer™ — a national initiative created by Amgen to increase awareness of the important resources available to cancer patients from prevention to education, and patient care to advocacy and financial support.

Currently signed on as part of Cycling Sherpa program and available for bids:

• Ivan Dominguez
• Aaron Olson (Team Bissell)
• Thurlow Rogers (legend)
• Kim Anderson (Team Columbia)
• Roy Knickman (legend)
• Rahsaan Bahati (Rock Racing)
• Wayne Stetina (legend)
• Dotsie Bausch (Team Colavita)
• Daniel Ramsey (TIME Pro Cycling)
• Mari Holden (legend)

Want to learn more about being a pro, what it’s like to draft behind them, or get some great training advice? Hire a Sherpa, have fun and help a cause. Why fix a flat when your Sherpa can do it for you? Cycling Sherpa bidding is now open, so place your bid today!

Dominique Rollin Wins KOM Competition; Ivan Dominguez Places 2nd in Stage 6

Team Racks up 66 victories and 146 podiums in 2008

Team Wins 162 Races and 355 Podiums in its Three-Year Existence

Bend, OR – In what was the teams final official team race under the Toyota-United moniker, the boys in red, white and blue didn’t disappoint as they fought hard all week to keep their stage win streak alive, currently holding the record at 9 stages in America’s largest grand tours; Amgen Tour of California, Tour de Georgia Presented by AT & T and the Tour of Missouri, the most stage wins of any team world wide. Unfortunately, the team came up a little short with Ivan Dominguez placing 2nd in Saturday’s stage 6, losing to Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia), arguably the world’s fastest man with four stage wins at this years Tour De France and three stage wins at this year’s Tour of Missouri. “I tried so hard to beat Mark on Saturday, my boys set me up perfectly, but when we arrived at the finish Mark hesitated with 200 meters to go due to the headwind sprint and I waited on him when I should have jumped him instead and he beat me to the line” said Dominguez.

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BMC’s Jeff Louder won the Redlands Bicycle Classic Criterium in a two-man sprint against Luis Amaran (Colavita/Sutter Home), the two survivors of a breakaway that formed an hour before, resisting the all out chase by Toyota-United and a crash that took out the other two members in the break. Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) won the field sprint to take third place.

Santiago Botero with the help of his team Rock Racing aptly protected the yellow jersey and with no changes to the general classification with Chris Baldwin (Toyota-United)in second place and Francois Parisien (Symmetrics) in third.

The plan worked perfectly for the BMC team. “It was the plan to get a BMC rider in the break, we really wanted to wait for half race to do it, and that’s pretty much what happened. I saw the opportunity, there’s no star on this team, we’re all here to take opportunities, that’s what happened.” said Louder.

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