Team Leopard-Trek is a new professional road racing team from Luxembourg led by the brothers Andy Schleck and Fränk Schleck, with Brian Nygaard and Kim Andersen as team managers. Other senior riders include veterans Jens Voigt, World Time Trial Champion Fabian Cancellara and Stuart O’Grady.

Michael Rogers has signed a two-year deal with Team Sky. The 30-year-old will join up with the likes of Bradley Wiggins and Edvald Boasson Hagen, and spearhead the team in week-long stages races and the Tour de France. In other news, seasoned Tour de France campaigner Stuart O’Grady has confirmed his departure from Saxo Bank by signing with the Luxembourg Cycling Project being led by Schleck brothers Andy and Frank.

Brothers Andy and Frank Schleck are leaving their Saxo Bank team and are set to join a home brewed Luxembourg outfit next season.

“It’s official that we will not be riding with Bjarne next season,” Andy Schleck said. “We are going to leave at the end of the year,” he added.

Team Saxo Bank owner Bjarne Riis confirmed that his team’s future is assured for another two years in a Tour de France press conference on Monday. The team will have two new sponsors, says Riis, one of which he confirmed as US software giant SunGard, the other will be revealed at a later date.

This past week saw many national time trial championships happening with some of the Tour contenders showing some form. Here is a wrap-up of the fastest in the ride against the clock.

Robert Gesink claimed a prestigious win on the sixth stage of the Tour of Switzerland Thursday to take command of the race.

The Rabobank climbing specialist attacked late on the third and final climb, crested the summit alone and raced the remaining 10km downhill to finish well ahead of an eight-man group of chasers.

Gorka Izaguirre of Euskaltel-Euskadi won the sprint of a shortened final stage of the Tour of Luxembourg, as Matteo Carrara of Vacansoleil defended his leader’s jersey to win the overall classification. Severe thunderstorms caused the race organisers to cancel two of the five laps of the closing circuit in the Luxembourg capital.