Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears
2006
A year of opposed feelings. Enormous joy gets together with sad news. Óscar Pereiro wins the Tour de France, the team’s seventh, while Alejandro Valverde closes the season as the best rider in the world according to the UCI ProTour rankings… but everything gets overshadowed by the death of sprinter Isaac Gálvez while he was competing in the velodrome of Ghent.