The COAST team had several financial problems in early 2003.

Ultimately, the team was given a temporary starting ban by the UCI.

This was withdrawn again just before Milan-San Remo.

Later BIANCHI was appointed as CO-SPONSOR and later BIANCHI took over the entire sponsorship.

From then on, the team appeared in the characteristic retro BIANCHI shirts, and thus (unconsciously??) unleashed a true retro fever in the cycling shirt world.