17 Facts About Team Sky

1. Team Sky have normal food for their post-race meal, as well as sports foods, as Mitchell explains.

2. Team Sky finished the 2017 season on top of the UCI World Tour team ranking for the first time since 2012.

3. Team Sky regained half that loss on stage 18, and cemented the overall lead as well as the combination classification with a third-place finish at Alto de l'Angliru behind Alberto Contador on stage 20.

4. Team Sky went on to win the mountains classification and the super-combativity prize, winning the Cima Coppi for being the first to cross the summit of the Stelvio Pass on stage 16.

5. Team Sky won Paris-Nice for the fifth time in sixth years courtesy of Sergio Henao, who won the race overall by just two seconds over Alberto Contador.

6. Team Sky finished the 2016 season 3rd overall in the UCI World Tour team rankings, with Froome as its highest-ranked rider, finishing 3rd overall in the individual rider ranking.

7. Team Sky went into the 2016 Tour de France with what was without question an even stronger squad than the previous year.

8. Team Sky went into the 2015 Tour de France with their "strongest team ever" After a strong performance on the Mur de Huy Froome took over the race lead, and general classification by one second over Tony Martin.

9. Team Sky entered the 2015 Giro d'Italia with Porte as team leader with the aim of winning the general classification.

10. Team Sky finished third overall, winning the final day time trial by eight seconds from Sylvain Chavanel.

11. Team Sky finished second on the stage 21 on the Champs-Elysees.

12. Team Sky Sports' Premier League Team of the Season so far excludes some massive names.

13. Team Sky are reportedly searching for a new clinical director as they brace themselves for the outcome of the British General Medical Council investigation into former team doctor Richard Freeman and a delivery of testosterone patches to the Manchester.

14. Team Sky finally achieved their coveted monument win, but it wasn't Kwiatkowski, but rather, domestique Wout Poels who emerged victorious on a day with poor weather conditions and enduring snow.

15. At the Tour de France Team Sky finished third on stage two, the team time trial.

16. Team Sky was invited to compete in the other two of the year's Grand Tours.

17. Team Sky has announced the latest in a string of contract renewals as Salvatore Puccio stays with the team.