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2009 Cervélo TestTeam Season
The 2009 season for the , its first, began in February with the 2009 Tour of Qatar, Tour of Qatar and ended in October with the 2009 Giro di Lombardia, Giro di Lombardia. Though they applied for UCI ProTour status after their formation, the team competed in 2009 as a UCI Professional Continental team with Wild card (sports), wildcard status. This means that although they were not automatically invited to UCI ProTour events, they were eligible to be invited. Despite not being a ProTour team, they effectively competed at the highest level available in the sport - seventeen of the twenty-four 2009 UCI World Ranking, UCI World Ranking events invited the team, including all three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours. The team formed for the 2009 season after their title sponsor, Cervélo, was outbid to remain the bicycle frame sponsor of . The owners of the company wanted to remain at the highest level of pro cycling, and formed the TestTeam. The team's leader is 2008 Tour de France winne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Campana (cycling)
Thomas J. Campana Jr. (January 26, 1947–June 8, 2004) was an inventor. He was awarded about 50 US patents in his 30-year career. His most significant contributions were in the field of push email. He invented and patented a number of new technologies that were later incorporated into Research in Motion's BlackBerry mobile email devices. In 2006, after a protracted legal battle, Research in Motion paid $612.5 million (equivalent to $ in ) to NTP Inc. to license the patents. Early life Thomas Campana was the son of a milkman and grew up in the southside of Chicago. Education and military service Thomas had an electrical engineering degree from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Illinois. He was a staff sergeant for the United States Air Force working with radio. Inventions Push Email In 1990 Campana invented a form of wireless push email and filed the first in a series of patent applications on it. The technology was evaluated by AT&T but later droppe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
