Total Direct Énergie (cycling Team)

picture info	Total Direct Énergie (cycling Team) Team TotalEnergies () is a professional road bicycle racing team that competes as a UCI ProTeam in UCI Continental Circuits races, and UCI World Tour races when invited as a ''wild card'' entry. In previous years, the team was known as Brioches La Boulangère, Bonjour, Bouygues Télécom, Bbox Bouygues Telecom and Europcar. The 2015 season was the last under the sponsorship of Europcar. The team has been sponsored by Direct Énergie since 2016. Beginnings The team was founded in 1984 as Système U. The team disbanded in 1985 but returned in 1986 under new management. Cyrille Guimard became the directeur sportif, bringing his protégé Laurent Fignon. A change of sponsor in 1990 renamed the team Castorama. In 1992, Guimard became manager of the team. In 1995, Jean-René Bernaudeau, a former professional racer, became director of the team. From 1996 to 1999, the team withdrew from top-level competition. Bernaudeau set up a development team in the Vendée region called Vendée U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Vendée Vendée () is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.Populations légales 2019: 85 Vendée INSEE Its prefecture is La Roche-sur-Yon . History The area today called the Vendée was originally known as the ''Bas-Poitou'' and is part of the former province of Poitou. In the southeast corner, the village of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2011 Team Europcar Season The 2011 season for the cycling team began in January with La Tropicale Amissa Bongo and ended in October with Yukiya Arashiro's performance in the Japan Cup (cycling), Japan Cup. It was the team's twelfth season as a professional cycling team, although its second as a List of UCI Professional Continental and Continental teams#UCI Professional Continental Teams, UCI Professional Continental team. Unlike fellow former UCI ProTour#List of current UCI ProTeams, UCI ProTeams , , and , they did not seek the status for 2011, thus in order to compete in any 2011 UCI World Tour, UCI World Tour event, the team had to be invited in advance, by race organizers. The season was one of the best in the team's history, with 20 victories and a 2011 Tour de France, Tour de France with multiple noteworthy performances. Team leader Thomas Voeckler wore the yellow jersey as race leader for ten days; the second such occurrence of his career, after also leading for ten days in 2004 Tour de France, 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

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