Renshaw leaves Astana for Decathlon
Mark Renshaw is taking on a new challenge. After spending the past two seasons as a sports director at XDS-Astana, first joining the Kazakhstani squad to help Mark Cavendish in pursuit of his record-setting 35th Tour de France stage win, Renshaw is leaving that team to join Decathlon-CMA GCM for the coming season.
As team GM Sébastian Joly said in a statement, Renshaw "will be dedicated to the sprint project" of the French squad, which has signed rising star Olav Kooij to lead the way in the bunch kicks. Meanwhile, Decathlon has also announced that fellow retired pro Heinrich Haussler is also coming aboard as a sports director, tasked with focusing on the Classics.
