Caleb Ewan does not race Australian national championships and report suggests he's currently looking for a new team

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Monday, 13 January 2025 at 11:48
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Caleb Ewan might be leaving Team Jayco AlUla, but at the same time he may not. But at this point of the year this is a very unusual question and subject that is not defined by anyone involved. The 'Pocket Rocket' is not named on the team's rider list and at the moment there is total silence on his situation or where he will race.

This was first noticed a few days ago, Ewan became absent from the riders list on Team Jayco AlUla's website. This was not the case before new year's eve, it was a recent change. It is not an error, it's a purposeful decision as at this point, several days later, he continues to not be on the list of 29 riders - Ewan was supposed to be the 30th. This has led to many questions but very few answers.

However, Velo has talked to sources within the team, one of which said there was no room for him on the team (which is, as far as we know, not true as the team has one open spot) and another said that he was looking around for a new team. The change from 2024 to 2025 seems to mark the key aspect of this, it's possible that Ewan intended on changing teams and his contract that ran until 2025 was changed so as to finish in 2024, but was kept private.

Hence at the time being he would no longer be a rider for the Australian team. This Sunday the riders will take on the Australian national championships and Ewan will not race, neither will he race the Tour Down Under. INEOS Grenadiers, if this were to happen, would be a potential candidate for Ewan's signing but last fall there were also big rumours that he would be joining XDS Astana Team.

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KerisVroom 12 January 2025 at 03:38+ 735

There is a corelation between the amount of tattoo one has and drop of performance. Examples: Filippo Ganna and Caleb Ewan. More data is needed. Maybe Tadej should a few tattoos!

Mistermaumau 12 January 2025 at 09:28+ 3436

There might be a psychological explanation for that ;-)

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KerisVroom 12 January 2025 at 09:50+ 735

Interesting! Spill the tea, please

Mistermaumau 14 January 2025 at 07:15+ 3436

You realise that’s an extremely ambiguous expression right but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt:-) It may not hold at this level but a lot of guys in sport “offer” themselves a tattoo (the Ironman logo is an extremely popular example) for reaching their personal goal, which can turn into a reason the lose motivation for lack of having another. Obviously Mr X doesn’t have this attitude, more prone to act as to warrant such perspicacious James Bond titles like The world is never enough, but most of us at some point become happy or satisfied with what we’ve achieved or our mind resigns itself to not believing we can attain more and just lose the will to go further in THAT direction. But the again, I don’t recall Froome having any so who knows ;-)

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KerisVroom 12 January 2025 at 13:26+ 735

That a very plausible explanation why some of them have tattoos. I'm not aware of such behaviour because I don't follow other sports. Thanks for the explanation even though it may not apply to all scenarios.

Mistermaumau 13 January 2025 at 22:11+ 3436

I think in his case it might just be lack of mental coaching. He had a great run and it’s gone without visible reasons. 2023? 2024? Blaming others but achieving nothing when allowed to reorganise, somehow it’s not so surprising he’s looking for a team. Am sure he could still mix it occasionally but he needs someone to change his attitude. Going back to tattoos, another interesting and revealing characteristical observation, if you discount cultural and gang related markings, you’ll find more tattoos per person in sport when they are strength types as opposed to endurance. And as news is slow or predictable, here’s another to reflect on (not going to discuss it further here), when you look at types of drink rubbish strewn around in nature (and ignore alcohol induced behaviour), you’ll find a huge disproportion between discarded soft/energy drinks and milk/water/juice. A logical person might imagine that has to do with quantity yet ironically much more milk/water/juice based drinks are sold than energy/soft.

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