Alberto Contador teams use new Polartec kit at training camp
14/12/2017
It includes a baselayer tank made from fabric that places merino wool next to skin synthetic fibre on the outside in a bi-component knit that offers the comfort of wool with enhanced durability and moisture management.
There is a team jersey made from Polartec Power Stretch compression fabric, a fabric designed to provide aerodynamics and muscle support with high levels of breathability and moisture management and another made from the company’s Delta cooling fabric, a special fibre and yarn construction engineered to optimise the body’s natural evaporative cooling process.
Other components are bib shorts, arm warmers, neck warmers and leg warmers, plus vests, jackets, gloves and caps.
“Our goal is to become the leading brand in performance textiles for cycling, and our work with the Contador Foundation enables us to do what we do best, which is solve problems through textiles,” said Polartec chief executive, Gary Smith, after the Arizona training camp.
Spanish rider Alberto Contador, who won the Tour de France in 2007 and 2009, set up under-23 and junior teams in 2016 to teach young athletes about the values he insists are core to the sport: honesty, team-work, respect and self-sacrifice. The teams are managed by Alberto Contador’s older brother, Francisco Javier.
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