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Polartec renews Alberto Contador sponsorship

08/02/2017
Specialist outdoor fabric developer Polartec has renewed its sponsorship of cycling teams set up by Spanish rider Alberto Contador. The textile company will be co-sponsor (with automotive brand Skoda) of junior and under-23 teams until 2018 at least. The teams compete under the name Rh+ Polartec and are managed by Alberto Contador’s older brother, Francisco Javier.

Alberto Contador, who won the Tour de France in 2007 and 2009, set these two teams up to teach young athletes about the values he insists are core to the sport: honesty, team-work, respect and self-sacrifice. He is one of a number of high-profile cyclists to have been stripped of titles (including the 2010 Tour de France) following doping controversies. He tested positive in 2010 for the banned substance clenbuterol, which he attributed to meat from cattle treated with the drug.

On announcing an extension to the existing sponsorship deal, Polartec chief exceutive, Gary Smith, said his company and the Contador team share the same commitment to innovation and to the future of competitive cycling and he said Polartec intends to use its involvement in the team to try out new performance textile concepts.

All team kit for 2017 will be made using Polartec fabrics.


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