2010 Team HTC–Columbia season
The 2010 season for Team HTC–Columbia began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to send a squad to every event in the ProTour. The team's general manager was Bob Stapleton, in his third year with the team.
| 2010 Team HTC–Columbia season | |
|---|---|
| UCI World Ranking ranking | 6 |
| Manager | Bob Stapleton |
| Season victories | |
| One-day races | 6 |
| Stage race overall | 8 |
| Stage race stages | 45 |
With the team's focus shifting to full-time support of prolific sprinter Mark Cavendish, many riders left the team after the 2009 season, most for the new Team Sky. Several young riders, most of them in their first year at this level of the sport, joined the team to be members of Cavendish's new leadout train, which lacked Cavendish's primary leadout man from 2009, Mark Renshaw, for the first several months of the season due to Epstein-Barr virus. Cavendish's own training and development were also stunted because of a dental infection.