What is T-Mobile Team?
{{dablink|For the mobile telephone company, see [[T-Mobile]]. For the women's cycling team, see [[T-Mobile Women]].}} {{Infobox Cycling team | teamname=<center>T-Mobile Team</center> | image= | code=TMO | base= {{GER}} | founded=1991 | disbanded= | manager=Bob Stapleton | discipline=Road | status=ProTour | season= | oldname=Team Telekom | pattern_la1=_whiteborder|pattern_b1=_whitehorizontal|pattern_ra1=_whiteborder|leftarm1=FF80C0|body1=FF80C0|rightarm1=FF80C0|shorts1=000000| }} <!-- non free image [[Image:T-Mobile 2006 team.jpg|thumb|350px|Presentation of the 2006 team in [[Mallorca]]. Photo: T-Mobile Team]] --> '''T-Mobile Team''' (''UCI Team Code:'' '''TMO''') is a professional [[cycling team]] competing in international [[road bicycle race]]s. It is named after its chief sponsor - the [[T-Mobile]] company. The team takes part in many editions of the annual [[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tours]] of cycling, such as the [[Tour de France]] and the [[Giro d'Italia]]. Since 2005, the team has been one of 20 teams that compete in the new [[Union Cycliste Internationale|UCI]] [[UCI ProTour|ProTour]]. In December 2007 T-Mobile decided to pull out of cycling sponsorship, and end their sponsorship immediately although they had promised to carry on until 2010. The team was founded in 1991 as '''Team Telekom''', sponsored by T-Mobile's parent [[T-Mobile Telephones|Deutsche Telekom]] - but in 2004 their name changed to the current '''Team T-Mobile '''. It has 29 riders, 9 physiotherapists or nurses, 9 mechanics, and has 22 partners. The team is managed of [[Olaf Ludwig]] and [[Eddy Vandenhecke]], and its sports directors, sometimes caleed {{in lang|fr}} ''directeurs sportifs'' [[Brian Holm]], [[Tristan Hoffman]], [[:en:Allan Peiper|Allan Peiper]], [[Valerio Piva]] and [[Jan Schaffrath]]. ==History== ===Team Telekom=== Founded as ''Team Telekom'' in 1991 with [[Walter Godefroot]] the team manager, the team soon became important presence in international cycling. In 1994, the German [[cycling sprinter|sprinter]] [[Erik