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| UCI code | MOV | ||||||||||||||||
| Registered | Spain | ||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1980 (1980) | ||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||
| Status | UCI WorldTeam | ||||||||||||||||
| Bicycles | Canyon | ||||||||||||||||
| Components | campagnolo | ||||||||||||||||
| Website | Team home page | ||||||||||||||||
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| General manager | Eusebio Unzué | ||||||||||||||||
| Team manager(s) | José Vicente García Pablo Lastras Max Sciandri Patxi Vila | ||||||||||||||||
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Movistar Team (UCI team code:MOV) is a professionalroad bicycle racingteam which participates atUCI WorldTeam level and has achieved thirteengeneral classification (GC) victories inGrand Tours. The title sponsor is the Spanish mobile telephone companyTelefónica, with the team riding under the name of the company's brandMovistar.[1]
The team was formed asReynolds, led byÁngel Arroyo and later byPedro Delgado, who won aTour de France and aVuelta a España, and was subsequently sponsored byBanesto, under which name the team included five-time Tour de France winnerMiguel Induráin andAlex Zülle, twice winner of the Vuelta a España. The team offices are inEgüés, inNavarre, Spain.[2] A later sponsor wasCaisse d'Épargne, a French semi-cooperative banking group.
Having previously usedPinarello bikes, the team rode Canyon frames in 2014, withCampagnolo parts. Since 2008,Eusebio Unzué has been the manager of the team after the long running manager,José Miguel Echavarri, retired from the sport. Thedirecteurs sportifs of the team areJosé Vicente García,Pablo Lastras,José Luis Jaimerena,Patxi Vila andMax Sciandri.[3]
The team began in 1980 as the Reynolds team which José Miguel Echavarri as the directeur sportif.[4] In 1982 signed a youngPedro Delgado who acted as a domestique for team leaderÁngel Arroyo during the1982 Vuelta a España.[5] Arroyo won the Vuelta after his team controlled the race after he took the lead. 48 hours after his Vuelta win, the results of a positive test were made known forMethylphenidate (Ritalin).[6]
Arroyo and the Reynolds team denied that Arroyo doped and asked for a B-analysis which confirmed the positive A-sample. Arroyo became the first winner of the Vuelta a España to be disqualified.[6] Delgado changed teams in 1985 but returned to Reynolds in 1988 where he won the1988 Tour de France and then the1989 Vuelta a España with the team. In 1984,Miguel Induráin made his professional debut with the team.
In 1990, Spanish bank Banesto took over as the main sponsor of the team from Reynolds. Delgado was the team leader for the Tour de France whileMiguel Induráin andJulián Gorospe were the leaders for the week long stage races. When Gorospe took the lead in that year's Vuelta, the team went behind him in a bid to win the race. Gorospe lost the leader's jersey and Delgado took over the leadership but could not regain the time that ItalianMarco Giovannetti had gained and ended the race second overall behind Giovannetti.
Over the following years, Indurain rose to become a dominator of stage races winning five editions of the Tour de France and two editions of theGiro d'Italia. Delgado was the team leader for the Vuelta. The team also achieved success withJean-François Bernard who won the 1992 edition of Paris–Nice with the team.
The team won the Vuelta again in 1998 withAbraham Olano. During this time Alex Zülle joined the team and finished the1999 Tour de France second overall while climberJosé María Jiménez performed in the Vuelta a España. The team became known asiBanesto.com in the final years of the sponsorship of the Banesto bank.
In 2004,Illes Balears, the Balearic Island's Tourism Board, became the team's principal sponsor, the team's name wasIlles Balears-Banesto until 2005. Caisse d'Epargne took over from Banesto as the second sponsor in the 2005 season, the team was then known asIlles Balears-Caisse d'Epargne. Caisse d'Epargne then became the main sponsor in 2006 reversing the title sponsor ordering with the name,Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears.
The team fielded a number of strong contenders in the2005 Tour de France including Francisco Mancebo (former National Champion of Spain),Alejandro Valverde,Vladimir Karpets and sprinterIsaac Gálvez. Mancebo produced the best results finishing fourth overall in the General Classification.
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears finished fifth overall (56 minutes, 53 seconds behindTeam T-Mobile) in the Team Classification at the2006 Tour de France. Individually, the team's top rider,Óscar Pereiro, finished in second place. The Tour victory ofPhonak riderFloyd Landis was almost immediately called into question, after a urine sample taken after his Stage 17 win twice tested positive for banned synthetictestosterone as well as a ratio oftestosterone toepitestosterone nearly three times the limit allowed byWorld Anti-Doping Agency rules.[7]
After hearing of the positive "A" test, Pereiro stated that it was only an initial, unconfirmed result and he would not yet consider Landis guilty or himself the Tour winner. "I have too much respect for Landis to do otherwise", he said.[8] After hearing that the Landis "B" test also came back positive, Pereiro stated that he now considers himself Tour champion and the Landis scandal should not diminish his own achievement. "Right now I feel like the winner of the Tour de France", Pereiro said. "It's a victory for the whole team."[9] After nearly two years of appeals, Pereiro was officially upgraded to Tour champion for 2006.[10]
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On 31 May 2010, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the appeals from WADA and the UCI regarding the suspension of Alejandro Valverde for his implication in theOperación Puerto doping case. Valverde was banned for two years, starting 1 January 2010 and after serving the two-year suspension returned to competition in 2012 riding for the Movistar Team.[11][12]
The 2011 season proved to be a transitional one for the team, with their first victory coming as a single stage win in theTour Down Under, courtesy ofFrancisco José Ventoso. The team found success with stage wins in theVolta a Catalunya andTour of the Basque Country. The team also won two stages of theGiro d'Italia: Ventoso won stage 6 andVasil Kiryienka won stage 20. The team's final Grand Tour win came courtesy ofRui Costa in theTour de France.
The 2012 season saw the team re-establish itself as one of the major general classification contenders. The return of Valverde almost immediately brought the team success with a stage win in the Tour Down Under, followed by the overall win of theVuelta a Andalucía as well as a stage win. Colombian new recruitNairo Quintana also brought the team overall victory at theVuelta a Murcia. The team scored multiple overall classification victories; Quintana claimed theRoute du Sud, Rui Costa theTour de Suisse,Javier Moreno theVuelta a Castilla y León and finallyBeñat Intxausti won theVuelta a Asturias. The team also won stages in all three Grand Tours.
The 2013 season closely followed the previous years, Valverde scored multiple early season results with theTrofeo Serra de Tramuntana and an overall win in theVuelta a Andalucía. Quintana further reinforced his potential as a Grand Tour GC rider with the overall win in the Tour of the Basque Country as well as claiming second place in theTour de France, taking the King of the Mountains in addition to the Young rider classification. He further reinforced his reputation as a force to be reckoned with, with an overall win in theVuelta a Burgos. Intxausti got the team's final overall win of the year and Costa won the UCI World Road Race championships. For the 2014 season the team confirmed that they would shift fromPinarello bikes toCanyon Bicycles.[13]
For 2014, the team adopted a 'divide and conquer' based tactic for the season's Grand Tours; first sending Quintana to the Giro, Valverde to the Tour and then finally both riders to the Vuelta. Quintana achieved the team's first victory – winning stage 4 of theTour de San Luis as well as the overall classification,Adriano Malori also won the individual time trial stage. Once again Valverde won the Vuelta a Andalucía as well as the Vuelta a Murcia,Roma Maxima,GP Miguel Induráin andLa Flèche Wallonne. In May, Quintana won the team's first Grand Tour since Valverde's 2009 Vuelta victory, the2014 Giro d'Italia. As with the previous season, Quintana defended his Vuelta a Burgos title winning it for the second straight year.
In August 2014, the team announced the signing ofMarc Soler (Lizarte)[14] andRubén Fernández (Caja Rural–Seguros RGA) on a 2-year contract.[15]
At the2015 Tour de France, the team finished first in the teams classification, and the two top men of the team, Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde finished second and third in the general classification, respectively, with Quintana also winning the white jersey as best young rider, and finishing second in the king of the mountains classification.[16][17]
During the 2016Tour, the team finished first in the teams classification by 8' 14" over Team Sky. Nairo Quintana made the podium by finishing third overall in the general classification standings and Ion Izagirre claimed victory on stage 20. Later during the2016 Vuelta a España, Quintana won stage 10 and the overall. The team concluded the year with their fourth win in the team ranking of2016 UCI World Tour.
In 2019,Richard Carapaz won theGiro d'Italia, and the team won the team classification in all three Grand Tours. The team's season is captured in a documentary series,The Least Expected Day: Inside the Movistar Team 2019, available onNetflix.[18]
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Denmark Time TrialMathias Norsgaard
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