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HALESOWEN CC

What links Johan Museeuw, Fabian Cancellara, Frank Vandenbroucke, Cadel Evans, and a group of youngsters in the West Midlands? The answer is to be found in those multi-coloured blocks that will be instantly recognisable to fans of professional road cycling of the 1990s and early 2000s: Mapei. Two decades on from the end of the superteam, the Italian building materials manufacturer’s relationship with cycle sport continues with Halesowen Cycling Club, Cycling Weekly’s club of the year for 2022.

Owing to sponsorship from Mapei UK, whose HQ

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