CANYON//SRAM RACING

Sponsored by a German bicycle brand and an American bicycle component manufacturer, the team is one of the oldest in the peloton. In its 22 years of existence, it has finished first in the UCI rankings twice (2007 and 2008) and eight consecutive times in the top 3 (2007 through 2014).

Created in 2002 from the T-Mobile men's team, initially, it was managed by the United States Olympic Committee, which found in this structure the means to prepare its riders for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, with a silver medal in the time trial for Deirdre Barry. The structure has since moved away from USOPC and has alternated between American (2011, 2013, and 2014) and German (2005 through 2010, 2012, and since 2015) licenses.