Unzué facing toughest sponsor search yet

Eusebio Unzúe

Eusebio Unzúe (Image credit: Shane Stokes)

The news that French financial giant Caisse d'Epargne has decided not to extend its sponsorship of the team led by Alejandro Valverde and Luis León Sánchez comes as little surprise.

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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