Team Sky
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| UCI code | SKY |
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| Registered | United Kingdom |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Discipline | Road |
| Status | UCI WorldTeam |
| Bicycles | Pinarello |
| Components | Shimano |
| Website | Team home page |
| General manager | Sir Dave Brailsford |
| Team manager(s) |
Kurt Asle Arvesen Dario Cioni Servais Knaven Nicolas Portal Gabriel Rasch Brett Lancaster |
| 2010 2011–2013 2014– |
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Team Sky (UCI team code: SKY) is a British professional cycling team that competes in the UCI World Tour. The team is based at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester, England, UK, with a logistics base in Deinze, Belgium and an operational base in Quarrata, Italy. The team is managed by British Cycling's former performance director Dave Brailsford.
Team Sky's initial aim in 2010 was to "create the first British winner of the Tour de France within five years". Though later cut back to just aiming to "win the Tour de France within five years", Sky achieved their initial goal within just three years when Bradley Wiggins won the 2012 Tour de France, becoming the first British winner in its history, while teammate and fellow Briton Chris Froome finished as the runner up who then went on to win the 2013 Tour de France, thereby achieving Team Sky's primary aim twice over within the original five-year time period. Froome won Sky's third Tour de France title in 2015 and fourth in 2016.
The creation of the team was announced on 26 February 2009, with the major sponsorship provided by BSkyB. The company were searching for a sport in which they could have a positive and wide-ranging impact through sponsorship. British Cycling first began their relationship with BSkyB in 2008 with a £1 million sponsorship in the Sky Track Cycling team following the Summer Olympics in which British cyclists excelled. After a trip to the Manchester Velodrome, home of the National Cycling Centre, in 2008, BSkyB chairman James Murdoch quickly became keen on the sport. BSkyB were lobbied by British Cycling and key figures such as David Brailsford to launch a British road cycling team which would compete in road cycling's major events as well as the three Grand Tours in Italy, France and Spain. BSkyB agreed to finance the team with the aim of a British rider winning the Tour de France within five years.
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