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Real pro cycling teams:

    SmartStop-Mountain Khakis p/b Jittery Joe's

    Bodysol EuroMillions Pôle Continental Wallon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI_WorldTeam#2026 for this year's crop of linoleum manufacturers, insurance firms, and sportswashing petro-states.

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Those two teams are/were not professional. Not that you are wrong about naming conventions.

I mean F1 teams are literally named directly after their corporate owners too (who are not necessarily the ones designing the engines/...) and people seem to love that.

One German football team is named after a pharmaceuticals multinational.

(A special case, it was the workers team for the Bayer plant, like Woolwich Arsenal or 'Locomotiv' of many Slavic cities)

At least that one started as a worker's club. The worse offender is named after an energy drink.

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