Jonathan Vaughters hatched the notion in May 2005, over dinner with some of his company's sponsors. "We were just throwing around ideas of what was it we were going to do to make cycling cool after Lance Armstrong was gone," says Vaughters, a former professional cyclist and now chief executive officer of Slipstream Sports, which manages cycling teams.
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