Geox’s Blanco blasts team’s sponsor, backs Mosquera

David Blanco (Geox TMC).

David Blanco (Geox TMC). (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Spanish veteran David Blanco has branded the main backers of his Geox-TMC team as “lacking scruples and morals” following Italian shoemaker Geox’s recent and wholly unexpected announcement that it will be quitting the sport at the end of the season. The Italian company made its announcement more than a month on from Juan José Cobo’s victory for the team at September’s Vuelta a España, leaving riders with few alternative options of employment and team manager Mauro Gianetti with little time to locate a new backer.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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