While NTT Pro Cycling management is trying to find a new title sponsor as the UCI registration deadline nears, NTT riders competing in the Giro d'Italia have promised to fight for the future of the team and their own future in the sport.

Rumors about the future of the team's sponsorship have been circulating for some time, but on Monday NTT announced that it will end its six-year support of the team in its previous incarnation as Dimension Data.

According to Cycling News, team manager Doug Rider had until recently assured many parties that a new sponsor would be announced within days or weeks, but now it appears that dream is over.

Even if Ryder refuses to throw in the towel on the conference call with the riders, several riders under contract for 2021 have been given permission to find new teams. He hopes to find a new sponsor in the final weeks of the 2020 season.

Victor Campenaerts, Domenico Pozzovivo, Rui Meintjes, Matteo Sobrero, Ammanuel Gebrexavier, Ben O'Connor, Dylan Sunderland, and Danilo Wyss are in Palermo for the start of the Giro d'Italia, know that the Italian Grand Tour will give them a chance to showcase their talents.

Former European time trial champion and hour record holder Victor Campenaerts suggested to Sporza that they look for a new sponsor "after 12:05."

"Of course we are disappointed that our main sponsor has stopped sponsoring us. It's a difficult situation for the team and for each rider," Campenaerts said at the team's video press conference in Palermo.

"We are here to focus on the Giro and the best thing we can do is to go out and get good results. This will help the team find a new sponsor, and if the team doesn't find a new sponsor, it will help us find a new deal."

Campenaerts is targeting Saturday's opening time trial to Palermo. He faces a battle with new world champion Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), who has seen some technical aspects of the course.

The time trial will descend from Monreale at 312m elevation to sea level in the center of Palermo.

"With the pink jersey at the finish, the opening time trial is definitely the biggest goal of this Giro," he stated.

"I've never done a time trial like this before. The current time trial record is held by current Belgian national team coach Rick Verbrugghe (58.874 km/h set in the 7.6 km prologue time trial in 2001). I think his record can be broken and I think I have a chance, but Ganna is the favorite."

"It's super hard to beat Ganna, but I think I have some advantages, like the first kick up in the first kilometer, and I think I can take some seconds off Ganna. I'm lighter and my time trial bike has disc brakes. He will have problems

"The rest of the time trial will be fast and Ganna will be faster than me.

Domenico Pozzovivo rode through 10 stages of the Tour de France with an elbow injury after crashing hard on the first stage. Now that he has recovered, he is looking forward to his 20th career Grand Tour, where he will look to make a strong showing in the overall and in the mountain stages.

"I recovered after the Tour. The condition of my elbow is getting better. I've been training at high altitude in Etna," Pozzovivo said.

The time trial is not for me, but I think there is terrain where I can make up time, and I like having a mountain stage early in the Grand Tours. It is rare to have a 1,800-meter mountain stage early in a Grand Tour. I don't think this stage will decide the winner of the Giro, as they always say, but it can show who will lose the Giro."