11 of professional cycling's leading teams, including Team Ineos, CCC, Bora-Hansgrohe, Michelton-Scott, and Deceuninck Quick-Step are controlling members of the Velon group, a joint-venture company that aims "to drive a financial model that, in line with other international sports, ensures a sustainable future for the teams".
Former Sky Sports and Liverpool football club commercial director Graham Bartlett has been appointed at CEO of Velon.
Velon aims to create a more exciting, stable and credible sport. It is creating a "season long story' by changing the race calendar and structure of the teams so that professional cycling can be "better understood by a growing international fan base, with more entertaining racing for the fans".
Tejay van Garderen (Team CCC) said: "Velon is a great way for teams to help cycling fans get closer to the sport they love. It will lead to new technology and create even more exciting racing. Cycling has also needed a way for teams to work together, like they do in other mainstream sports. This is a tremendous first step."
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HANNAH GRANT is an acclaimed chef. She trained at some of the best restaurants in the world, including Fat Duck and Noma. For six seasons she was lead chef for professional cycling team Tinkoff-Saxo. During that time, she honed her skills and became known as the Queen of Performance Cooking.
She published her first performance focused cookbook in 2013. It fast became a must-have among professional and amateur athletes.
Her second cookbook was published in 2018 as a companion piece for her Amazon Prime show Eat.Race.Win., which garnered two Emmy nominations and one win. Eat.Race.Win. created a new TV genre by combining food, traveler, and professional sport.
Along with her partner Dr. Stacy Sims, she launched the supplement company ERW – Jet Lag. Together Grant and Sims have designed a product to alleviate a traveler’s jet lag.
Grant says, “We are on a journey to make long-distance air travel easy and enjoyable—and we are taking a global community of travelers with us.”
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CHRISTOF BOVE is an award-winning producer and director. For nine years he was a Vice President of Development at the USA Network and the Syfy Channel. Of his 20 produced projects while there, his film 23 Days of Fear won an NAACP Image Award for best movie.
While still an executive, he directed the award-winning documentary Deep Springs: A Desert Education. In 2014, Netflix purchased his feature doc Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show.
Creator and showrunner of the series EAT. RACE. WIN. for Amazon Prime, he won a 2019 Daytime Emmy after receiving two nominations, including Best Culinary Program.
He is a graduate of Deep Springs College, Cornell University and California Institute of the Arts. He is currently writing a memoir about a solo, transcontinental bike ride from San Francisco to New York.
TIM KRUBSACK is an accomplished television producer and network executive. He has been the head of unscripted programming for networks including Syfy, USA, and Z Living.
Some of his shows include Face Off (winner of the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Competition Program), Ghost Hunters, Paranormal Witness, and Joe Rogan Questions Everything. As a producer, he has been involved with MTV’s Road Rules, and FOX’s Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?
For Trio he produced the critically-acclaimed documentary, Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks.
He graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, with a degree in Cinema-Television Production.
