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Team History

Women's Cycling

Canyon SRAM Generation team history: development, identity & a modern feeder pathway

Canyon SRAM Generation was launched in 2022 with a broader purpose than simply giving Canyon SRAM a reserve squad. The new Continental team was...
Women's Cycling

Highroad Women team history: the project that sharpened elite women’s sprinting

Highroad Women only existed under that exact name for a few months in 2008, but the period was far more important than the short...
Women's Cycling

Selle Italia-Ghezzi team history – a key team from women’s cycling’s earlier professional era

Selle Italia-Ghezzi is the sort of team that exposes a problem with the way women's cycling history is usually remembered. The biggest riders and...
Women's Cycling

AA Drink-Leontien.nl team history: a talent pipeline with real ambition

AA Drink-Leontien.nl only raced for two seasons under that exact name, but the team itself had a much longer history and its influence on...
Women's Cycling

Nürnberger Versicherung team history: the German squad that kept delivering champions

For much of the 2000s, Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung was the reference point for German women's professional cycling. The team combined a strong German identity with...
Women's Cycling

Safi-Pasta Zara-Manhattan team history – the Italian squad that kept leaving a mark

Safi-Pasta Zara-Manhattan occupied a distinctive place in women's professional cycling during the mid-2000s. It was Italian in its management and commercial identity, international in...
Men's Cycling

Brooklyn team history – De Vlaeminck, style and a team built for one-day violence

Brooklyn lasted only five seasons under the name that made it famous, but few teams from the 1970s are as instantly recognisable. The stars-and-stripes...
Women's Cycling

Liv-Plantur team history: the transitional years of a major women’s cycling project

Liv-Plantur was not a short-lived standalone team. It was one name in the continuous history of the women’s programme now racing as Team Picnic...
Women's Cycling

Rabo Liv team history: from Dutch project to world-class results machine

Rabo Liv existed in its best-known form for only five seasons, but its influence stretches across modern women’s cycling. Between 2012 and 2016, the Dutch...
Men's Cycling

Discovery Channel team history: the uneasy second act after US Postal

Discovery Channel arrived in professional cycling as a new title sponsor, but almost nothing about the team itself was new. The blue and black kit...
Men's Cycling

Lampre team history: a long-running Italian presence through cycling’s modern shifts

Lampre were never cycling’s neatest team to explain. They were not one of the sport’s dominant super-teams. They did not build an era around a...
Men's Cycling

Saeco team history: Cipollini, colour and a team built to be seen

Saeco were never a team designed to disappear into the peloton. They were red, loud, Italian and unusually easy to recognise. In an era when...