Amid sponsor woes, Sky riders go on offense
The British team is off to a strong start to the season, which the riders said is important in the sponsor search.
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Ineos Grenadiers is a British professional cycling team that competes at the UCI WorldTeam level. The team is based at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester, England, with a logistics base in Deinze, Belgium. The team is managed by British Cycling’s former performance director, Sir Dave Brailsford. Wikipedia
The British team is off to a strong start to the season, which the riders said is important in the sponsor search.
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Spanish media report that Oleg Tinkov offered to save Team Sky, which is seeking a sponsor for 2020. He denies report as "bullshit."
Corporate acquisitions spell the end of Team Sky's salad days. The world's dominant cycling team may be forced to trim its budget in coming years.
Published this week in America, Geraint Thomas's new book takes readers inside the Tour. Here are three interesting points we learned from "The Tour According to G."
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Richard Freeman to face UK's General Medical Council in February and may lose license to practice medicine.
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He sits between two leaders on the bus of a team that is at once celebrated and reviled. This is what Wout Poels thinks of it all.
The Belgian said he would like Sky to stay afloat, but with a smaller budget to make the peloton more even.
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Rumors of a merger or an extension with Comcast are intensifying. Sky is in an unusual situation because its exiting sponsor is also the team owner.
With Team Sky's future in doubt, there is speculation that Israel Cycling Academy might merge with the British superteam in 2020.
Fellow pro team managers know how hard it is to bring on new sponsors, but they bet that Brailsford can keep his program afloat.
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If Team Sky can't survive, the bidding war for Chris Froome will be intense, right? In fact, he may not be right for most WorldTour teams.
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The Spanish squad is reserving judgment on Team Sky's sponsor woes as both squads prepare for the 2019 season.
Team Sky's sponsorship situation looks shaky after 2018. We discuss that and all the muddy action from cyclocross nationals.
A dismantling of 'Fortress Froome' would level peloton, though possibility of wealthy team purchasing a block of Sky and becoming new dominant force remains.
Agents with riders on Team Sky say they expect the stars to stay put as long as possible, hoping to help save the team.
A glut of top riders like Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas could rock the transfer market for 2020 if Team Sky can't find new sponsor.
Team Sky will lose its main financial backer at the end of next season, news that puts management into scramble mode.
Sky just announced it will end its sponsorship at the end of 2019. What happens when the money dries up? What’s next for Team Sky?
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The team says it must secure post-2019 funding before the start of next summer's Tour de France.
Team Sky's riders only learned about the squad's sponsorship news Tuesday night, hours before it was announced.
The British super-team announces that its main backer is pulling the plug following the upcoming campaign.
In a wide-ranging interview, Geraint Thomas said communication between himself and Chris Froome was crucial to his TDF victory
Tour organizers hope to tame team Sky with a course designed to produce, oh happy day, the first French winner since 1985.
Although he won't confirm his role as sole leader, Froome says another yellow jersey would be an ideal 10th-anniversary gift for Team Sky.
Swift, 30, rode for the British team from 2010-2016 before joining UAE Team Emirates for the last two seasons.
Young Irishman eyes stage races and even grand tours, feeling age is no barrier
The British squad continues to bolster its lineup for grand tours as it seeks to continue success in the calendar's major races.
Egan Bernal extends with Sky through 2023
Sky director Portal expects his superteam to remain harmonious despite many top riders with ambitions to win major tours.
Team Sky boss rails against rumored plans to further trim rosters and cap team budgets, saying he wants sport to grow as a whole.
Sky will likely boost Thomas's salary for 2019, but that's not the reason why the British team will trim riders from its roster.
Richie Porte said more sponsors, not a salary cap, are what cycling needs to bring more parity to the peloton.
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We spoke with a sports psychologist about the impact Sky riders may have felt from listening to boos and jeers on the roads of France.
Despite his dominant performance, Geraint Thomas said he suffered mightily during the Tour's final week.
Regardless of whether a superteam stifles racing, rivals agree on one thing: For Team Sky, it is money well-spent.
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Sky director Dave Brailsford says Froome's role as a super-domestique to ascendant Thomas will be cheered.
Sky's problems with spectators at this year's Tour de France continued Wednesday on the slopes of the Col du Portet.
Sky needs to kick Gianni Moscon off the team, for its own sake, and because it is simply the right thing to do.
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Team Sky's Gianni Moscon was expelled from the Tour de France on Sunday following an altercation with another rider.
Geraint Thomas will not allow negative public sentiment toward Team Sky ruin his time in the Tour's yellow jersey.
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After getting booed on Tour de France podium, Geraint Thomas defends his Sky team as 100-percent clean.
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Chris Froome is "relieved to get the Paris-Roubaix stage" behind him so he can focus on the mountains and a fifth Tour de France title.
Team Sky sport director Servais Knaven is pulling out all the stops to make sure his team has full Roubaix roadside support during the Tour de France version of a Sunday in hell.
We speak with Dr. James Morton, Team Sky’s head of nutrition, to learn more about what it takes to fuel a team at a grand tour.
Outside the Team Sky bus on Wednesday, Luke Rowe confronts fan who was holding a sign telling the British team to go home.
Racing for Team Sky has doomed Geraint Thomas to second-banana status behind Chris Froome despite his immense talent.
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Now that Chris Froome’s controversial Salbutamol case has been closed, the big question now making the rounds is who leaked it?
We chat Tour dreams, an American-Russian alliance, marginal gains, and when your heroes are your colleagues
Froome wants to draw a line in the sand and move on from his salbutamol case by winning the Tour-Giro double.
Team Sky brings a deep roster to the Tour de France to support Chris Froome's bid to join cycling's greatest champions.
Ian begins the second chapter of his career with a first TdF start on the horizon.
The British team came to the defense of Chris Froome, who continues to race despite an ongoing anti-doping case.
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Team Sky's deep bench of domestiques was on display in Criterium du Dauphine stage 4, and that's good news for Chris Froome.
Team Sky turns in a flawless performance to win Critérium du Dauphiné's stage 3 team time trial. Kwiatkowski is back in GC lead.
Here’s your News Roundup for Friday, June 1. Stay up to speed on all of the stories circulating in the world of pro cycling.
Giro d'Italia withdrawals? We've got the entire race, right here, in 60seconds.
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With two big mountain stages remaining in the Giro d'Italia, Team Sky is setting up a new strategy to ambush Yates for the win.
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The latest entry level apparel from Castelli provides functional simplicity that feels classic, not budget.
Chris Froome will lead Team Sky at the upcoming Giro d'Italia