Team KATUSHA is happy to announce that the German company Alpecin joins the team as partner for the 2017 season. The team will be registered as a Swiss UCI WorldTour team.

Team KATUSHA has decided to take its rider Alexey Tsatevich out of the Giro d’Italia 2016 after yesterday’s incident at the individual time trial around Chianti.

Sidi Sport is pleased to introduce the new model Wire Carbon Katusha Team Limited Edition. This shoe is a faithful reproduction of the same model being worn by Alexander Kristoff, Purito Rodriguez, Ilnur Zakarin and their team mates in the 2016 season.

Rider Interview: Alexander Kristoff was one of the biggest winners of the 2015 season with over twenty wins to his name. His Tour of Flanders win has to be the high point and the man from Oslo wants more of the same this year.

Rider Interview: Sergey Lagutin is in his thirteenth year as a professional cyclist and in that time he has ridden for more than a handful of top teams, been Uzbekistan National champion six times and took World U23 championships in 2003.

Rider Interview: Jacopo Guarnieri can talk on any subject, but sprinting is his bread and butter and as Alexander Kristoff's last man in the Katusha lead-out train, he know's his stuff. We also talked about his love of Paris-Roubaix, doping and being a cycling sex god.

Roadside PEZ: The Alicante region of Spain is rammed full of professional cyclists at this time of year and our man down there, Alastair Hamilton, has been receiving his annual invitations to team press days and presentations. First up was the Russian Katusha team presentation in Calpe.

WorldTour Team Katusha starts in the UCI 2.1 stage Abu Dhabi Tour, which will be held in the United Arab Emirates from October 8th to October 11th.

Team Katusha’s leader for Il Lombardia, Joaquim Rodriguez, will not be able to take the start in the last WorldTour race of the season.