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Team NTT Pro Cycling, formerly known as Dimension Data, are the first major competitive cycling squad to be based in Africa, and raced as a WorldTour team for the first time in 2016. They also have strong links with the Qhubeka charity, providing bicycles to less developed areas of Africa.
Having performed as a UCI Professional Continental-level squad from 2013-15, the team steadily earned wildcard places in some of the biggest races. They paid back the invites with victories and exciting performances that thrust the team and its riders into the limelight and made them a fan favourite.
The team made its Grand Tour debut in 2014 at the Vuelta a España. As well as returning to that race in 2015, the team were also invited to Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Flèche Wallone and the daddy of them all, the Tour de France.
Since then, the team has won numerous stages in all three Grand Tours, most notably in 2016 when Mark Cavendish sprinted to four stages at the 2016 Tour.
The last three years have seen lacklustre performances across the roster, with limited WorldTour wins. Having lost Cavendish in 2019, the team was re-branded Team NTT. Bjarne Riis has been appointed team manager and promising talents like Victor Campenaerts and Samuele Battistella fill the 2020 roster.
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'Cycling has been my life for 20 years': Enrico Gasparrotto calls time on his career at 38
Enrico Gasparotto has announced his retirement from professional cycling at the age of 38 after a very successful career spanning 16 years for eight teams, winning various races
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NTT Pro Cycling announce new headline sponsors
NTT Pro Cycling has announced its new headline sponsors, bringing an end to the uncertainty around their future.
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Bjarne Riis leaves NTT Pro Cycling after just one year as manager
Bjarne Riis is leaving NTT Pro Cycling after just one season as team manager.
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NTT Pro Cycling boss Bjarne Riis says ‘time is running out, it’s not looking good'
The fate of NTT Pro Cycling still looks bleak, as the team’s boss says there is still no new sponsor lined up.
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NTT Pro Cycling left searching for new sponsor as NTT pulls out
NTT Pro Cycling is facing an uncertain future as headline sponsor NTT has pulled out of the team.
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Bjarne Riis 'confident' NTT will continue into 2021 season
The Dane is aiming for stage wins at the Tour de France to try and attract new sponsors
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Giacomo Nizzolo wins European Championships road race in dramatic sprint finish
Nizzolo beat Arnaud Démare and Pascal Ackermann to become the 2020 European champion
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Victor Campenaerts is sleeping at 4,700m in altitude tent ‘to feel like a rider who took EPO’
Time trial star Victor Campenaerts has revealed he is sleeping at 4,700 metres in an altitude tent, so he can “feel like a rider who took EPO.”
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Bjarne Riis returns to men's WorldTour as NTT Pro Cycling boss
Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis will take over as team manager at NTT Pro Cycling, as they join forces with women’s team Virtu Cycling.
