Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team

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The Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team was a professional racing team.

The US Postal Service stopped sponsoring their team in 2004. The Discovery Channel took over sponsorship in June 2004 in time for the new UCI ProTour

On February 10 2007 Discovery Channel decided not renew its sponsorship of the team at the end of the 2007 season.^[1] The decision to end its sponsorship is believed to be related to the sacking of Discovery Networks president Billy Campbell by David Zaslav, the new president of Discovery Communications the same day.

On 10 August 2007 Tailwind Sports, who are the team's licence holders, said the team would stop racing at the end of the year^[2]. They could not find a new sponsor and blamed bad publicity about doping in the 2007 Tour de France.

The most famous member of the Discovery Channel team was Lance Armstrong who won seven Tours de France before he retired in 2005.

Current members of the team, such as 2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, 3rd placed Levi Leipheimer and George Hincapie all had to find new teams. Hincapie joined Team T-Mobile. Many think Contador may have trouble finding a new team because of rumours about being involved in the very big Operation Puerto doping scandal.

1 2007 squad
2 See also
3 References
4 Other websites

[change] 2007 squad

As of April 30, 2007.^[3]

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Fumiyuki Beppu	April 10, 1983 (age 25)
	Volodymyr Bileka	February 6, 1979 (age 29)
	Janez Brajkovič	December 18, 1983 (age 24)
	Alberto Contador	December 6, 1982 (age 25)
	Antonio Cruz	October 31, 1971 (age 36)
	Steve Cummings	March 19, 1981 (age 27)
	Tom Danielson	March 13, 1978 (age 30)
	Allan Davis	July 27, 1980 (age 27)
	John Devine^[4] (From July 2007)	November 2, 1985 (age 22)
	Stijn Devolder	August 29, 1979 (age 28)
	Vladimir Gusev	July 4, 1982 (age 25)
	George Hincapie	June 29, 1973 (age 34)
	Levi Leipheimer	October 24, 1973 (age 34)
	Fuyu Li	May 9, 1978 (age 30)

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Trent Lowe	October 8, 1984 (age 23)
	Egoi Martínez	May 15, 1978 (age 30)
	Jason McCartney	September 3, 1973 (age 34)
	Gianni Meersman	December 5, 1985 (age 22)
	Uroš Murn	February 9, 1975 (age 33)
	Benjamín Noval	January 23, 1979 (age 29)
	Pavel Padrnos	December 17, 1970 (age 37)
	Sérgio Paulinho	March 26, 1980 (age 28)
	Yaroslav Popovych	January 4, 1980 (age 28)
	José Luis Rubiera	January 27, 1973 (age 35)
	Tomas Vaitkus	February 4, 1982 (age 26)
	Jurgen Van Goolen	November 28, 1980 (age 27)
	Brian Vandborg	December 4, 1981 (age 26)
	Matt White	February 22, 1974 (age 34)