As the saying goes, all good things come to end, and so it was hard for Velocio-SRAM owner Kristy Scrymgeour to hide her emotions following her team's victorious last hurrah, a fourth consecutive world title in the elite women's team time trial at the World Championships in Richmond, Virginia. After all, her riders displayed the impeccable teamwork and world-class athleticism that her program has been known for during their four-year tenure at the top ranks of women's cycling.
"This is a relief in some ways," Scrymgeour said following her team's success in Richmond. "It's always been building up to this moment and we've put a lot of energy into this as it's finishing our season.
"There's also a bit of sadness because this is the end of the team but we've ended on a good note and that's great. We couldn't have asked for a better ending to this team."
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The highly successful Velocio-SRAM team will fold as of January 1, 2016, an announcement that Scrymgeour made in August. Having created Velocio Sports, her management company, following the disbanding of HTC-Highroad in 2011, Scrymgeour has overseen the program that was initially known as Specialized-lululemon from 2012-14, followed by the title sponsorship Velocio Apparel and component manufacturer SRAM during the 2015 season.
"When Highroad stopped I started a new company to run a women's team, it was basically all the same riders as Highroad," Scrymgeour told Cyclingnews. "We built this team because we wanted to keep all the riders together. They wanted to stay together, it was the Olympics the next year [2012] and so I created Velocio Sports as a management company to run the team under, then I created Velocio Apparel two years later in 2014.
"The apparel brand was totally separate from the team but we loved the name and we kind of started the brand in the thought that we would build it around the team, with women's apparel first, and we wanted a way to support women's cycling."
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