It seems to me that for a Grand Tour winner finding a team for Jose Cobo has been way too hard. But today it seems that he has found a team. According to cyclingforall.net (LINK [link is in Italian]), Team Movistar is close to signing Cobo, and it appears that another undisclosed team is also interested in signing him.
Now, I understand that Cobo's win at the Vuelta seemed suspicious, he was never a great cyclist, and Team GEOX was formed on the defunct Saunier-Duval platform which never had the best doping track record,
but let's be fair Cobo won the Vuelta when he was 30, but it's not like he came out of the blue. He was the U23 Spanish Time Trial champion in 2003, won the Pau-Hutacam stage at the 2008 Tour, finished 9th at the 2009 Giro di Lombardia and 10th overall at the Vuelta before winning last year's edition.
So I think that he deserves to be on a team, a World Tour team, and I wish him the best because, let's be honest, he was fun to watch at the Vuelta.
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