What is Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team?
The '''Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team''' was a professional [[Bicycle|bicycle racing]] team. The [[United States Postal Service|US Postal Service]] stopped was the [[sponsor]] of the team until 2004. The [[Discovery Channel]] took over sponsorship in June 2004 in time for the new [[UCI ProTour]] On February 10 2007 Discovery Channel ended its sponsorship of the team at the end of the 2007 season.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/feb07/feb10news |title=Discovery Channel to end sponsorship |first=Sue |last=George |date=2007-02-10 |accessdate=2007-02-10 |work=Cyclingnews.com}}</ref> The decision to end its sponsorship is believed to be related to the [[Employment|firing]] of [[Discovery Networks]] president [[Billy Campbell]] by David Zaslav, Zaslav became the new president of [[Discovery Communications]] that same day. On 10 August 2007, the team's [[UCI ProTour|licence]] holders, [[Tailwind Sports]], said that the team would stop racing at the end of the year. They could not find a new sponsor and blamed that on bad [[publicity]] about [[Doping in sport|doping]] in the 2007 [[Tour de France]]. ==Members== The most well known member of the Discovery Channel team was [[Lance Armstrong]]. He won the Tours de France seven times before he retired in 2005. == References == {{Reflist}} == Other websites == ;Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team * [http://team.discovery.com/ Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020072420/http://team.discovery.com/ |date=2006-10-20 }} * [http://www.thepaceline.com/ The Official Fan Club of Lance Armstrong and the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team] * [http://www.cyclingpost.com/protour/teams/dsc07.shtml Discovery Channel team page at Cyclingpost] ;U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team * [http://www.uspsprocycling.com/ USPS Pro Cycling Team Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060710120602/http://www.uspsprocycling.com/ |date=2006-07-10 }} * [http://www.cyclingnews.com/letters/?id