ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND ::: Igår presenterade Post Danmark Rundt det svenska företaget Marabou som en av sina viktiga sponsorer för det här årets tävling. Samma dag presenterade det amerikaska laget HTC-Columbia en ny sponsor vid en pressträff i Rotterdam. Företaget Skype som grundades av svensken Niklas Zennström kliver in som kommunikationssponsor för det globalt spridda ProTour-teamet från Californien. Laget har en svenska i teamet, tempomästrinnan Emilia Fahlin från Örebro.
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Skype and California-based High Road Sports, Inc., the owner of Team HTC-Columbia men’s and women’s professional cycling teams, announces that Skype will support the team as they compete in Europe’s largest sporting event, the 97th Tour de France starting July 3, 2010 in Rotterdam. HTC-Columbia welcomes Skype as an ongoing supporter that fits extremely well with it’s young, international team.
Team HTC-Columbia has used Skype for more than three years to keep in contact with colleagues around the world and to stay close to friends and family back home. With the professional cycling season lasting more than 10 months, the team relies on free Skype-to-Skype video and voice calls to do things together with their friends and family when they are apart, and to stay in touch making low-cost calls to phones internationally. The team has been able to save money on business calls by using Skype’s business solutions and have now been set-up on the new Skype Manager with the latest Skype Subscriptions and hardware accessories – enabling each member of the team to make the most of Skype.
Look out for Skype’s logo on the new team jersey which will be unveiled in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on July 2. Moreover, the team will be available during the Tour for interviews with the world’s press via Skype video. Journalists will be able to contact the team and organise time to talk to team members real-time over Skype video.
”Whether it’s to connect during those unmissable moments, or just to have a quick catch-up over IM with their colleagues, Team HTC-Columbia is a natural fit for Skype as they have been using Skype extensively for personal and business communications from different countries worldwide for quite some time now,” said Neil Stevens, General Manager of Skype’s Consumer Business Unit. ”One of their new riders, Hayden Roulston has watched his baby crawl, stand and take his first steps over Skype video. That’s the beauty of Skype; it allows people to do the things they normally do together even when they are thousands of miles apart.”
”Skype offers innovative communication products and has ambitious marketing objectives,” said Bob Stapleton, head of High Road Sports. ”Our team hails from 20 different countries worldwide, so taking the decision for us to join the millions of people and businesses around the world that use Skype was simple. Skype keeps the whole team communicating and emotionally connected as we traverse the globe competing in the world’s top races such as the Tour de France,” Stapleton added.
Tune in to the live webcast of Team HTC-Columbia’s team presentation in Rotterdam on Friday, 1pm CET at www.highroadsports.com.