FRANKFURT, Germany - Team Gerolsteiner will fold at the end of the season because it has not been able to find a new sponsor.
The German mineral water company had announced a year ago that it was pulling out of sponsoring the cycling team. "No sponsor had the courage and the confidence to come in," team chief Hans-Michael Holczer said Thursday.
Cycling in Germany has been tainted by a series of doping scandals and another major sponsor, T-Mobile, also has pulled out of the sport.
Gerolsteiner's top riders include Bernhard Kohl of Austria and Stefan Schumacher of Germany.