Cycling, Ineos Grenadiers looking for new sponsors

Rome, 19 January 2025 - First the crisis of results and then the economic one: the former TeamSky, today Ineos Grenadiers, is not experiencing its most prosperous period and to return to its old glories, in addition to some lucky intuition in the cycling market, fresh blood could be needed. Word of the CEO John Allert.  

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  The years of the 7 hits al Tour de France between 2012 and the 2019 although in theory not so many years have passed, but since then a lot has happened: including the decline of the star Egan Bernal, never returned to his levels after the terrible accident in training January 2022. In parallel with the downward spiral of the Colombian, who is still the spearhead for the Grand Tours along with the question mark Carlos Rodriguez, new phenomena were emerging in cycling Primois Roglic, Remco Evenepoel, Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van aert, jonas vingegaard and especially Tadej pogacar, a group destined to share almost the entire cake of the main races in the calendar World Tour, that category to be defended at all costs. In the true sense of the word. "We will remain in the World Tour even in the three-year period from 2026 al 2028 because we are lucky to have a very passionate patron who is involved in the project. However, we also want to try to keep up with the other teams and for this reason we are evaluating the inclusion of a second sponsor": these are the words of Alert in a virtual press conference that suggests a major shake-up at corporate level in the near future. Curiously, well before the CEO, riders from the present and especially from the past of the team had expressed their opinion on the matter Ineos Grenadiers: from tom pidcock a ethan hayter, today respectively at Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team and the Soudal Quick Step, who before migrating elsewhere had confirmed the existence, if not even the need, for many changes within a former super power that in 2025 will cling to Filippo GanaThe idea is to try to open the season with a resounding result at Milan-Sanremo, to then also attempt an assault on the Paris-Roubaix, two races in which the Piedmontese obtained a best score respectively according to and a sixth place, both in 2023. The Top Ganna, on the threshold of 29 years, to this 2025 asks for confirmation and further information on his real qualities in Classics, which could become the icing on the cake of an already excellent career full of laurels on the track and in the time trial. Ironically, the former TeamSky, the emblem of an almost robotic precision that did not meet with unanimous acclaim in the world of cycling (to use a euphemism), today depends on the imagination, the creativity and the unknowns of men like Ganna, Bernal e Rodriguez. Then there is the economic situation, which is even more uncertain today.

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