Thomas to lead INEOS Grenadiers at Vuelta
Geraint Thomas will lead INEOS Grenadiers' eight-man line-up at this year's Vuelta a Espana which begins on Aug. 26, the British team announced on Friday.
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Geraint Thomas will lead INEOS Grenadiers' eight-man line-up at this year's Vuelta a Espana which begins on Aug. 26, the British team announced on Friday.
Eurosport expert Adam Blythe is predicting that Ineos Grenadiers could have their «worst Tour de France in terms of general classification hopes.» Ineos, previously Team Sky, once dominated the peloton at the Tour de France, winning the yellow jersey for five straight years from 2015 to 2019. Ad But this summer their team doesn’t appear to have a strong favourite to battle the GC favourites like Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates).
INEOS Grenadiers have confirmed that 2019 Tour De France winner Egan Bernal is back in their squad for his first Grand Tour since his horrific injury in 2022. Bernal hasn’t raced at a Grand Tour since the 2021 Vuelta a Espana but after recovering from his serious injuries he is part of an interesting INEOS line-up. Ad Rising British and Spanish stars Tom Pidcock and Carlos Rodriguez are the nominal General Classification contenders although neither are expected to seriously fight for yellow this early in their careers.
Egan Bernal will compete at the Volta a Catalunya next week, his team Ineos Grenadiers has confirmed. Bernal will make his European season debut at the event as he continues on the long road back to finding form and fitness following a serious accident in January 2022 that came close to taking his life. Ad He last competed in January when he was forced to pull out of the Vuelta a San Juan with a knee injury.
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.
The Ineos Grenadiers have confirmed their eight-man line-up for the 2022 Tour de France, and will be fronted by the star-studded GC trio of Geraint Thomas, Dani Martinez and Adam Yates. Thomas was the 2018 Tour winner and tasted success in this year’s Tour de Suisse. Meanwhile, Martinez emerged victorious in the Tour of the Basque Country and Yates has won multiple Tour stages.
Richard Carapaz will lead a strong Ineos Grenadiers team at the 2022 Giro d’Italia. Ineos have won the race for the past two years, and Carapaz will be given the best chance to make it a hat-trick — and his second Giro victory after his success in 2019 in the colours of Movistar. Ad/> While Carapaz will be leading the charge, 2020 victor Tao Geoghegan Hart and 2021 champion Egan Bernal will be absent due to illness and injury respectively.