Netcompany–Ineos
cycling team
Netcompany-Ineos Cycling Team (UCI team code: NCI) (formerly Team Sky from 2010 to 2019, Team Ineos from 2019 to 2020, and Ineos Grenadiers from 2020 to 2026) 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. Tour Racing Ltd is the corporate entity behind the team in all its iterations, which in line with cycling practice adopts the name of their current primary sponsor.
The team launched in 2010 with the ambition of winning the Tour de France with a British rider within five years, a goal achieved in two 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 and then went on to win the 2013 Tour de France. Froome won three more Tour de France titles for the team in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Froome went on to win the 2017 Vuelta a España and the 2018 Giro d'Italia, making him the champion of all three Grand Tours at once.
Froome was retrospectively awarded victory in the 2011 Vuelta a España, after the original winner Juan José Cobo was stripped of his title due to doping. The team won the 2018 Tour de France with Geraint Thomas, the 2019 Tour de France and 2021 Giro d'Italia with Egan Bernal, and the 2020 Giro d'Italia with Tao Geoghegan Hart, meaning that the team won seven of the eight editions of the Tour de France between 2012 and 2019, with four different riders, and five further grand tours between 2011 and 2021.
Following the decision by British media company Sky UK not to renew sponsorship, the team secured financial support from the British chemicals group Ineos, with the team renamed as Team Ineos from April 2019.
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