Movistar Team

Movistar Team (UCI team code: MOV) is a professional road bicycle racing team which participates in the UCI ProTour and has achieved thirteen general classification (GC) victories in Grand Tours. The title sponsor is the Spanish mobile telephone company Telefónica, with the team riding under the name of the company's brand Movistar.

The team was formed as Reynolds, led by Ángel Arroyo and later by Pedro Delgado, who won a Tour de France and a Vuelta a España, and was subsequently sponsored by Banesto, under which title the team included 5-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain and Alex Zülle, twice winner of the Vuelta a España. The team offices are in Egüés, a municipality of Navarre, Spain, in the metropolitan area of Pamplona. A later sponsor was Caisse d'Epargne, a French semi-cooperative banking group.

Having previously used Pinarello bikes, the team will ride Canyon frames for 2014 with Campagnolo parts. Since 2008 Eusebio Unzué has been the manager of the team after the long running manager, José Miguel Echavarri, retired from the sport. Directeurs sportifs of the team include Neil Stephens, Alfonso Galilea and José Luis Jaimerena.

Movistar Team (Continental Team)

Movistar Team (Continental Team) (UCI Code MOT) is a Colombian-based UCI Continental cycling team .

Creation

Created for the 2011 season, as a subsidiary of the Movistar Team, a Spanish team of UCI ProTour status.

The telephone company, as the new sponsor of the Spanish team, decided because of commercial interests in Latin America, to create a continental team, since virtually they could not compete in America. Because the rules regarding categories UCI ProTour teams can only compete in races that are category 1 or. HC (Tour de San Luis, Tour of California, Philadelphia International Championship, Quebec Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Montreal)

With the creation of continental team they have access to all other races as most international races in South and Central America are category 2.2.

The team is based in Bogotá, Colombia, and the management team is headed by former Colombian coach Libardo Leyton while responsible for the medical part is a former professional rider Alvaro Mejía.