What Sets Us Apart

High Road is founded on the values of clean and fair sport, personal commitment, and placing ones goals beside those of the team. We seek to create an environment where 'success happens' using the best methods, technology and personal development tools found across the world of sport. Our goals are to make change happen, to win by fair means, and represent the best aspects of sport. We are open to new ideas, direct in our actions, and fair in our respect for the views of others.

Who We Are

Team High Road is made up of talented young cyclists, supported by a leadership group of experienced riders and management. We have 21 athletes aged 26 and under, making us the youngest team at the top level of professional cycling.

We count seven current National champions, 11 former National champions, and seven current or former world champions on our roster We proudly represent the National Champions of the USA, Germany, Australia, Great Britain, Italy and Norway.

We are particularly proud of our success in the "Grand Tours" with current team members wearing the famed "Maglia Rosa" or Pink Jersey in the Giro d'Italia, the Yellow Jersey in the Tour de France, winning two Stages in the Vuelta a España, and three stages in the Tour of Germany. Overall, the Team achieved 35 UCI race wins which places it in the top four in terms of race wins among ProTour teams last season.

The High Road Women also won over 30 races and ended their season ranked number one team in the world. The team held the leaders jersey in most of the major women's tours in the world and took the overall victory in Thuringen, Germany, Montreal Tour in Canada, and Gracia Orlova Tour in the Czech Republic. They also won the Swedish World Cup, the Liberty Classic Series in Philadelphia and multiple stages in the prestigious Tour de l'Aude in France, Giro d'Italia Feminile in Italy and the Holland Ladies Tour, among others.

We continue to focus on the up and coming stars in cycling. We have added a host of exciting young talent including Edvald Boasson Hagen, John Devine, Thomas Lovkvist and Tony Martin, along with current US Champion Mara Abbott and German Champion Luise Keller in the women's team. This youth combined with our current young talent gives us perhaps the best group of young riders in the sport.

Our young talent is be supported by strong veteran leadership including a new introduction to the team in George Hincapie. George has completed 12 editions of the Tour de France and has been instrumental in overall victories in eight of those. He comes to the team with big ambitions of his own to win a classics race and perform at the Tour de France, but also to share his experience with the younger riders on the team. He joins other team leaders such as Michael Rogers, Roger Hammond, and Marco Pinotti in the men's team and Judith Arndt, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Chantal Beltman in the women's team. The great mixture of youth and experience creates an ideal environment of experience and enthusiasm and of skill and energy.

Leadership in Anti-Doping

We place ourselves at the front in a relentless fight against doping. We have introduced a new comprehensive and independent anti-doping program that is managed by Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE). Through this program, each member of the team will give a minimum of 26 random blood and urine tests per year. This is more testing than any other program. The volume of test results will enable ACE to build extremely detailed longitudinal profiles of each rider so that they will be able to detect small changes in body chemistry that might be caused by doping.

The profiles will be used in conjunction with the new World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) biological passports which will be introduced at the beginning of the 2008 season.

We believe frequent and comprehensive testing using profiles that detect small changes in body chemistry are invaluable tools to ensure the future of the team and the future of the sport. The testing will keep us more informed about the conduct and health of our athletes.

The governing body for cycling, the International Cycling Union (UCI) comments on this initiative:

High Road Sports continues to demonstrate leadership in this regard. By initiating a comprehensive team-based anti-doping program delivered by ACE, by supporting the UCI in their broad anti-doping efforts and most importantly, by actively working to create a doping-free culture within their team, they are a role model for other teams to follow.

Management

We believe that common goals and unity of action are the essence of team success. Led by American entrepreneur Bob Stapleton, the team has been recognized for driving the sport into a promising future, where success is measure not just by winning but by winning by fair means. Our organization focuses on providing the athletes with the right attitude, tools and support to achieve their goals and the goals of the team.

Our Sports Managers come from six different countries and bring comprehensive real world knowledge and experience to the Team. We have the depth and breadth of experience necessary to develop athletes from any country and any skill for any competition.

We have a common set of beliefs that guide our actions - only with success won by fair means can we create change, inspire people and shape the champions of the future

Tools & Technology

We want to give our riders every chance of success. We constantly seek the best tools and technology available in cycling and across the world of sport. We work closely with our partners to continually improve the products we use and choose partners and suppliers whose seek to provide the best products, solutions and methods to their customers and our team.

We are supported by experts in their fields of exercise science, nutrition and orthopedics as well as specialists in cycling who provide our athletes with specific training programs and methods to develop each individual. We use the data produced by the SRM power meter to analyze performance in training and in racing and as a guidance tool for our athletes during training.

We are continually working with new ways to enhance recovery from training and racing and of increasing core strength to prevent injury and to maximize the transfer of power from the athlete’s bodies to the pedals. We believe in the power of mental training and motivational support. We provide our riders with expert support as well as the undivided attention of our management team to the mental strength and health of all of our athletes.