NFTO ends sponsorship of UCI Continental team but new outfit set to replace it

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NFTO have pulled out of sponsoring its British UCI Continental team after four years. A new team spearheaded by former rider Tom Barras is set to replace it imminently.

The Hereford-based team came into being in 2012 as the project of John Wood, the owner of the bike shop The Shed, and has been one of the best performing teams on the domestic scene since, most memorably winning the RideLondon Classic in 2014 with Adam Blythe.

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Chris Marshall-Bell

A freelance sports journalist and podcaster, you'll mostly find Chris's byline attached to news scoops, profile interviews and feature writing across a variety of different publications. He has been writing regularly for Cycling Weekly since 2013.


Previously a ski, hiking and cycling guide in a number of places, but mostly in the Canadian Rockies and Spanish Pyrenees, he almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.


He lives in Valencia, Spain.