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EF Education have announced they have signed Richard Carapaz to join their team for the 2023 cycling season. Carapaz will race at La Vuelta, which begins on Friday, which will be his last Grand Tour for Ineos Grenadiers. Ad He joined Ineos in 2020, finishing second at La Vuelta 2020, third at last year’s Tour de France and was runner-up to Jai Hindley at this year’s Tour de France.
Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) has been wiped from the 2022 Tour de France results after breaching an in-competition ban on painkiller tramadol. The UCI said it was not a breach of anti-doping rules and the Colombian would be free to continue competing. Quintana has 10 days to appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Ethan Hayter has signed a new deal with Ineos Grenadiers until the end of the 2024 season. The 23-year-old claimed his first overall stage race victory at the Tour of Poland last week. Ad He is the sixth active British rider to have won a WorldTour race, alongside Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, Tao Geoghan Hart, Adam Yates and Simon Yates.
Geraint Thomas has revealed his Ineos Grenadiers team didn’t share the same level of “belief” that he had before this year’s Tour de France. The 36-year-old won the Tour de Suisse in the build-up to the Tour in June and entered the race without being cited as team leader, with compatriot Adam Yates and Dani Martinez getting the nod. Ad/> With three stages remaining, Thomas is over 12 minutes ahead of Yates in the general classification, with Martinez down in 29th.
It’s not as if Ineos Grenadiers didn’t try. Tom Pidcock was sniffing around the early moves during the fast and frantic start to Stage 17 while Dylan van Baarle, second time lucky, got himself into the breakaway alongside Dani Martinez. Jonathan Castroviejo even tried to bridge over on the first of four climbs, the Col d’Aspin, giving Geraint Thomas three men up the road.
On a day that Tadej Pogacar’s stricken UAE Team Emirates threw everything but the kitchen sink at turning the tables on yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), the Slovenian two-time champion moved just four seconds closer to the race summit despite beating his Danish rival to the line on the steep airstrip at Peyragudes. A thrilling Stage 17 in the Pyrenees saw Pogacar’s remaining three teammates blow the race apart on the third of four climbs before American climber Brandon McNulty set up his leader for his third win of the race.
There was a stunned reaction from Eurosport's commentators as key Ineos Grenadiers rider Adam Yates got dropped in a dramatic moment on Stage 17 at the Tour de France. All the pre-stage hype involved experts imploring Ineos to «have no regrets» and making it abundantly clear that «they have to go for it» to take the race to UAE Team Emirates and Jumbo-Visma. Ad/> Ineos already boasted a clear numerical advantage over their general classification rivals — UAE Team Emirates and Jumbo-Visma — as the race reaches its business end in the Pyrenees.
Eurosport's experts have urged Ineos Grenadiers and Geraint Thomas to have «no regrets» at the Tour de France and launch significant attacks in pursuit of glory. Ineos already boasted a clear numerical advantage over their general classification rivals — UAE Team Emirates and Jumbo-Visma — as the race reaches its business end in the Pyrenees. Ad/> There was a further boost for the team, and for Thomas, as Rafal Majka suffered a muscle tear and could not start Stage 17 for UAE Team Emirates.