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Team History
Women's Cycling
Farm Frites-Hartol team history: Dutch depth, Classics links and a changing era
Farm Frites-Hartol existed for only six seasons, from 1999 to 2004, but its place in women's cycling history is larger than that short lifespan...
Men's Cycling
Gewiss-Ballan team history: dominance, suspicion and one of cycling’s most loaded stories
Few teams compress as much of 1990s professional cycling into such a short lifespan as Gewiss-Ballan. The Italian squad existed in recognisable form for...
Men's Cycling
Gan team history: Boardman, LeMond and the bridge from Z to Crédit Agricole
Gan occupied an unusual place in the professional peloton of the 1990s. The French insurance company appeared on the jersey for only a little...
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
Lotto Belisol Ladies team history – Belgium’s changing place in the modern women’s peloton
Lotto Belisol Ladies was one name in a much longer Belgian women's team story. The structure began in 2006, changed title sponsors and naming...
Women's Cycling
Top Girls Fassa Bortolo team history: development, continuity and an Italian pathway that kept producing riders
Top Girls Fassa Bortolo has never been the richest or most powerful team in women's cycling, but longevity has given it a different kind...
Women's Cycling
Michela Fanini team history: memory, Italian identity and two decades in the women’s peloton
S.C. Michela Fanini occupied a distinctive place in Italian women’s cycling for almost two decades. Founded in 1999 and active through 2018, the team...
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
Univega team history: the short-lived squad that became the world’s best
Univega Pro Cycling Team existed under that name for only two seasons, but its place in women’s cycling history is much larger than the...
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...
