Team Telekom was more than a successful cycling team. For a period in the mid-to-late 1990s, it became the closest thing Germany had to a national cycling project, a commercial force, a Grand Tour machine and a cultural phenomenon all at once. Its pink and later magenta colours cut through the peloton, its riders became […]

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HTC-Columbia only existed for a few seasons in that name, but it left a much bigger mark on men’s cycling than its lifespan suggests. In simple terms, it was the team that emerged from the collapse of the old T-Mobile structure, rebranded and rebuilt under Bob Stapleton after the sponsor walked away amid repeated doping […]

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