Cofidis (cycling team)
Cofidis, Crédits Solutions is a French road bicycle racing team. The team is a member of the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Credible (short MPCC; German movement for a credible cycling ). By 2010, belonged to this team, a track cycling team.
The main sponsor is the French electronic credit company Cofidis. Team boss since 2013 Yvon Sanquer, who replaced Eric Boyer. Sports Director until the end of 2010 was Francis Van Londersele, he was succeeded by the former Cofidis rider Stéphane Augé, who ended his active career in 2010.
- 4.1 Achievements in the UCI Africa Tour
- 4.2 Achievements in the UCI Europe Tour
- 4.3 Additions - Disposals
- 4.4 team
- 5.1 Achievements in the UCI Europe Tour
- 5.2 Achievements in Cyclocross 2013/2014
- 5.3 Additions - Disposals
- 7.1 Team 2010
History
The team was founded in 1997. Founding The squad included, among others drivers like Tony Rominger and Lance Armstrong. Armstrong, however, never denied because of his testicular cancer that was detected shortly after signing the contract, a race for Cofidis, as Cofidis immediately resigned from the contract when his illness was known. After the restructuring of the categories in road cycling in 2005 Cofidis UCI ProTeam has a. For the 2010 season Cofidis only appeared as a UCI Professional Continental team on. Team manager Eric Boyer justified this step so that it would be flexible in the use of his drivers; ProTeam are obligated to attend all the races of the UCI ProTour race series and the successor series UCI World Tour.
Achievements
The team played so far nine participations in the Tour de France. In this case, six stage wins, a victory in the mountains classification ( Christophe Rinero 1998) and a victory in the team competition (1998) to be won.
Doping
2003-2007
After undercover investigations of the French judicial done in July 2002 searches of employees and athletes of the Cofidis team. One coach turned out to be head of a procurement and distribution network for banned substances. For racers Marek Rutkiewicz doping agents were found, train driver Robert Sassone put down a partial confession and Philippe Gaumont said as witness, the team management would have at least known of the common practice of doping within the team. In April 2004, growth hormones were found when racers Médéric Clain.
Cofidis then said, from and adopted their own anti-doping rules, all races. Nevertheless, the end of June were discovered empty EPO vials during a house search at David Millar.
Millar was banned for two years; Clain relieved. In January 2007, the criminal sanction: Millar and The Ballad of Massimiliano Lelli were acquitted because their offense probably had not taken place in France. The team also had to pay a compensation for his immediate dismissal Lelli. The former supervisor was given a prison sentence, as Gaumont, Sassone, Rutkiewicz and other drivers, but on probation.
The affair broke out in France and lively discussions led to a tightening of the rules.
2007
After the 16th stage of the 2007 Tour de France was announced that the rider Christian Moreni tested positive after the 11th stage from Marseille to Montpellier on testosterone. Then Cofidis pulled his team immediately withdrew from the Tour de France.
2012
On the first rest day of the Tour de France 2012 team hotel was searched by the police of Cofidis and Rémy Di Gregorio been brought because of possible involvement in a doping affair for questioning to Marseille. The investigation since mid-2011. Already running At this time drove Di Gregorio for the Pro Team Astana.
Season 2013
Successes in the UCI Africa Tour
Successes in the UCI Europe Tour
Additions - Disposals
Team
2014 season
Successes in the UCI Europe Tour
Successes in Cyclocross 2013/2014
Additions - Disposals
Placings in UCI rankings
UCI World Ranking
UCI ProTour
UCI World Calendar
UCI Africa Tour
UCI Europe Tour
Track Cycling team
The driver of the UCI Track Team Cofidis were all specialists for short-term events on the track. Athletic supervisor was the multiple world champion and Olympic champion Arnaud Tournant. The contract of the multiple World Champion Mickaël Bourgain, who had become twice with Tournant world champion in the team sprint was not renewed in 2009 after ten years on the team. The new additions to the team in 2010, Mulder and Levy were the first non- French who were committed for the track cycling team Cofidis. At the end of 2010, the UCI Track Cycling team was disbanded.