Xacobeo four days from extinction

Spanish team Xacobeo Galicia

Spanish team Xacobeo Galicia (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

The Xacobeo-Galicia team have revealed that they need to find a new backer before this coming Friday in order to avoid going under. Having already lost star rider Ezequiel Mosquera to Vacansoleil following his second place finish in the Vuelta a España and team manager Alvaro Pino to retirement, the Spanish pro continental team is battling for its future.

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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