T-Mobile Team

T-Mobile Team is an international professional road bicycle racing team. It carries, like many road cycling teams, the name of its owners and chief sponsor - the T-Mobile company. The team partakes in many international cycling tours, such as the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. Since 2005, the team is one of 20 teams that compete in the new UCI ProTour.

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Road bicycle racing - Team - T-Mobile - Cycling tour - Tour de France - Giro d'Italia - UCI - ProTour

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The team was founded in 1991 as Team Telekom, sponsored by T-Mobile's corporate parent Deutsche Telekom - but as of 2004 their name changed to the current T-Mobile Team. It contains a total of 25 riders, 9 physiotherapists or nurses, 9 mechanics and service persons, and has 22 partners. The team is under the management of Walter Godefroot and Eddy Vandenhecke; it has the spokesperson and Olaf Ludwig and Luuc Eisenga; and is under the sports directors Mario Kummer, Frans van Looy, Brian Holm, and Giovanni Fidanza.

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1991 - Deutsche Telekom - 2004 - Walter Godefroot - Eddy Vandenhecke - Olaf Ludwig - Luuc Eisenga - Mario Kummer - Frans van Looy - Brian Holm - Giovanni Fidanza

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