The HTC-Highroad team will end its association with professional cycling at the end of the season, drawing to an end its five-year spell in the sport.
The squad has consistently been ranked as the number one team in the world, but struggled to attract a new sponsor or convince cell phone maker HTC to renew. Team owner Bob Stapleton today announced that the squad would fold at the end of the year, and encouraged riders from both the men's and women's teams to find new homes for 2012.
