Giant’s mountain bike team sponsorship is growing considerably this year. The company will now support two mountain bike teams—Rabobank-Giant and the Giant Factory Team. Each team will bring together some of cycling’s brightest stars in disciplines ranging from cyclocross to slopestyle.
Team Rabobank-Giant will include the likes of Adam Craig along with new talents Emil Lindren of Sweden, Fabian Giger of Switzerland and Henk Jaap Moorlag of the Netherlands. This group of riders will focus on a year-round, global calendar featuring cross-country races in the summer and cyclocross races in the winter.
Craig commented on the new team, “From an athlete’s standpoint, it’s the ideal setup. There are certain similarities between cross-country mountain biking and cyclocross, and there’s always some athlete crossover between the two disciplines. So structuring it under one team makes sense.”