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23.06.2008/Moises Aldape of Team Type 1 will represent Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Aldape, 26, said the achievement caps an important goal. He will be his country’s sole representative in road cycling.

© Team Type 1
Moises Aldape will start at the Olympic Road Race . (© Team Type 1)

“The Olympics happen only once every four years, so it is extra special,” Moises Aldape said. “I am also very happy to have this opportunity to reward my new Team Type 1 squad. I think it is a great accomplishment for a first-year team to place a rider in the Olympics.”
 
Aldape recently finished third on one stage and third overall at the Tour de Beauce stage race in Canada while winning the sprint competition. He was seventh at the Commerce Bank International Cycling Classic in Philadelphia June 8 and his eighth place in April at the Tour de Georgia presented by AT&T helped Team Type 1 finish third in the team competition.
 
Team Type 1 sports director Ed Beamon said Aldape’s selection presents a tremendous opportunity to help the squad spread its message to a large audience. Team Type 1 was created in 2004 by two riders with Type 1 diabetes – Phil Southerland and Joe Eldridge – to inspire people living with diabetes to take a proactive approach to managing their health and overcoming the obstacles often associated with the condition.
 
“We have been trying to give Moises a race schedule that would help him get the points and exposure necessary to make the team and we will continue to help him get prepared for the big event,” Beamon said.
 
Aldape will be one of approximately 85 athletes from Mexico at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, which begin Aug. 8. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the Latin American country earned four medals (two silver and two bronze).

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