Cycling team

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.

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.

Smaller teams may simply get riders into a long breakaway to get coverage on television.

Teams are generally sponsored in exchange for advertising on clothing and other endorsements.

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