草稿:自行車隊

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自行車隊（英語：Cycling team）是加入或被招募並一起參與訓練的自行車運動員，及其相關的後援人員，他們參加業餘或專業的自行車比賽。自行車隊在公路自行車賽尤為重要，因為公路自行車是一項團隊運動。同時在場地自行車賽和公路越野賽等項目中，團隊成員之間的合作也一樣重要。

組成

雖然車手是自行車隊的核心，但頂級車隊不可缺少參與後援和訓練的人員。其中包括：

• 經理（Manager），負責監督團隊的投入、贊助和總體運營。
• 體育總監（Directeur sportifs），負責前往比賽現場並制定比賽策略；在規模較大的自行車隊中，他們通常駕駛後勤車隊車輛，並通過無線電與車手保持聯繫。
• 教練（Coaches），負責指導車隊的訓練。
• 醫生（Doctors），負責檢查車手的健康，並經常確保騎手符合與興奮劑相關的規定。
• 治療師（Therapists），協助教練。
• 保姆（Soigneurs）負責照料車手飲食、服裝、按摩和護送的助手；源自法語，意為「提供照顧的人」。
• 機械師（Mechanics），負責維護車隊的設備。

除此之外，還有負責贊助、營銷和公關的人員。

投入程度

自行車隊與車手之間的投入程度各不相同。業餘車隊的定義範圍很廣，從一群騎手利用業餘時間組成的車隊，到擁有為騎手提供裝備和資金的車隊。頂級職業車隊必須在國際自行車聯盟（UCI）註冊，該聯盟負責執行職業比賽的規則和積分制度。

公路自行車

Team members have different specializations. Climbing specialists grind away on hard inclines; sprinters save their energy for sprints for points and position; time trialists keep speed high over great distances.

Each team has a leader and captain, generally reckoned as the team's most experienced rider. The leaders have the most media exposure and the best chance of winning races. The rest of the team's members are domestiques, or secondary riders, who shield the leader from opponents and deliver food and drinks to him. However, any team member is allowed to go for a stage win.

In one-day races, one or several leaders are chosen according to demands of the race. In stage races, teams focus on different goals. For example, during the 2005 Tour de France teams such as Discovery Channel or T-Mobile focused on the general classification while other teams tried to win stages or one of the other classifications. In the 2004 Tour de France, Quick-Step-Davitamon helped Richard Virenque win the mountains classification while Lotto-Domo helped Robbie McEwen win the points classification. Smaller teams may simply get riders into a long breakaway to get coverage on television. Most professional teams have 10-20 riders.

Teams are generally sponsored in exchange for advertising on clothing and other endorsements. Sponsorship ranges from small businesses to international companies.

The Tour de France between 1930 and the late 1950s was for national teams which carried no prominent commercial advertising.

另見

• UCI ProTour
• UCI WorldTeam
• UCI ProTeam
• Équipe continentale
• Équipe cycliste féminine