Saturday 17 January 2015 17:51, UK
On the fifth anniversary of its launch, Team Sky has today set out its ‘2020 Vision’ for the next five years.
On the fifth anniversary of its launch, Team Sky has today set out its ‘2020 Vision’ for the next five years.
Sir Dave Brailsford, Team Principal said:
“The first chapter of Team Sky was successful. We set out to win the Tour de France, to do it clean and to do it with a British rider. We have done that twice. And we have helped inspire a million more people in the UK to take up cycling.
“But it is in our DNA to think that we could have gone further, that we could have achieved more. And we are now hungrier than ever.
“Our mission for 2020 is very simple - for Team Sky to be indisputably and consistently the best cycling team in the world, and to be viewed as one of the very best sports teams in the world.
“We will do that by winning more races in the next five years than we did in the past five years. And do that consistently in Grand Tours as well as classics and Monuments.
“Our vision is to continue to play a leadership role in charting a better future for this great sport of ours and changing the culture that so damaged it. That means continued leadership on anti-doping. But much more than that, we want Team Sky to be at the cutting edge of innovation and a reference point for excellence in human performance.
“And the purpose of all this is very simple - to do everything we can to make more people fall in love with cycling so it can have a positive impact on their lives.
“By 2020, I want Team Sky to be seen as a beacon of sporting excellence after a decade of sustained success. And how we have done it matters just as much as what we have done. But above all, why we have it done it matters most of all.”
Read more about Sir Dave Brailsford’s aspirations for Team Sky by 2020 here.
Some of Team Sky highlights of the last five years:
- Greg Henderson claimed Team Sky’s first win at their debut race in 2010 in Australia
- Team Sky has had 165 wins in five years
- Team Sky has won the Tour de France with two different British riders
- Edvald Boasson Hagen has had the most wins for Team Sky with 24
- Sir Bradley Wiggins is close behind, with 23 wins in Team Sky colours
- Chris Froome currently has 21 wins for Team Sky
- In total, 59 riders have ridden for Team Sky (including 2015 new signings)
- 15 British riders have been members of Team Sky
- Seven founding rider members remain with the team: Froome, Kennaugh, Stannard, Sutton, Swift, Thomas, Wiggins (six of them British)
- In 2010, there were eight British riders - the same number for the 2015 season
- Team Sky have raced in 21 countries across the world, including four continents
- Helped inspire over 1 million more people to get on their bikes and ride more regularly
- Team Sky has the biggest following of fans in cycling
