La Vuelta: 'They're annoying me now!' - Adam Blythe compares Jumbo-Visma to Ineos after latest star signings

Adam Blythe joked about being annoyed at how dominant Jumbo-Visma are threatening to be after the team signed Wilco Kelderman and Dylan van Baarle for 2023 and beyond. Kelderman finished fifth in the 2021 Tour de France and third in the 2020 Giro d'Italia, while Van Baarle secured stunning victories at Paris-Roubaix this year and at Dwars door Vlaanderen in the last campaign. Ad Jumbo-Visma's impressive additions came on the same day it was announced that Richard Carapaz would leave the Ineos Grenadiers to join EF Education for the 2023 season.

CyclingCarapaz to leave Ineos and join EF Education for 2023 season4 HOURS AGO Speaking on Eurosport prior to the start of the Stage 1 team time trial at La Vuelta, Blythe gave his reaction to the pair of signings and said with a smile that the Dutch team were «annoying» him with how good they are and the riders they continue to add. «I think the pressure is going to be on from start to finish no matter where they are,» Blythe said of Jumbo-Visma. «But definitely, being here [the Netherlands], they will want to just win everything, as much as they possibly can.

»They will just want to clean up. But the way that team have been going since the start of the year, they will just want to carry that all the way now until they get to the end of the season. «If they can do this [win La Vuelta] with Primoz, it has got to be one of the best seasons of any team ever, really.