Orica to stop sponsoring Australian WorldTour team after 2017

Mining services company Orica will stop sponsoring the GreenEdge Australian cycling team after 2017, citing a 'challenging environment'

Orica-Green Edge chase on stage three of the 2015 Vuelta a España (Watson)

(Image credit: Watson)

Orica will stop sponsoring Australian WorldTour team Orica-GreenEdge at the end of 2017 due to the "challenging environment facing the resources and mining services sectors".

The Australian mining services company joined four years ago in May 2012. It sponsors both the men's team, with British twins Simon and Adam Yates, and the women's Orica-AIS team. Overnight, it said it would extend through 2017, but that it would be its final year.

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