T-Mobile Team

T-Mobile Team was a professional road cycling team founded in Germany, best known under the name it carried from 2004 until the end of 2007. The squad began in 1989 as a German team backed by the city of Stuttgart, was founded in 1991 as Team Telekom under Deutsche Telekom sponsorship, and later rode as the T-Mobile Team and then, with HTC as its last title sponsor, as HTC-Highroad, dissolving at the end of the 2011 season when no new sponsor was found. Bjarne Riis won the 1996 Tour de France for the team with Jan Ullrich second, and Ullrich won the 1997 Tour. The team won the Tour de France team classification in 1997 and for three consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Erik Zabel took six green jerseys as points winner. In 2006 the team dismissed Ullrich while a doping investigation was pending.