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INEOS Grenadiers will test Tobias Foss as their leader at UAE Tour
CyclingSunday, 18 February 2024 at 08:30
INEOS Grenadiers will be defending streak of two second places overall at this year's UAE Tour. But it won't be an easy task because both of their former leaders - Adam Yates and Luke Plapp - are back in United Arab Emirates, ready to take on their former employer in their new kits.
Carrying the British team's GC hopes will be the former ITT World Champion and team's new acquisition for 2024 - Tobias Foss. The 26-year-old was expected to leave a mark as classification contender following his dominant victory at 2019 Tour de l'Avenir, however after 9th place at 2021 Giro d'Italia, the Norwegian found himself struggling to fight in the mountains. Hopefully he can resurrect his climbing legs in new outfit, making the debut at UAE Tour.
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INEOS Grenadiers lineup for UAE Tour:
Andrew August, Tobias Foss, Michael Leonard, Brandon Rivera, Óscar Rodríguez, Ben Swift and Elia Viviani
Andrew August, Tobias Foss, Michael Leonard, Brandon Rivera, Óscar Rodríguez, Ben Swift and Elia Viviani
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- I think this was because there were junior women in the race. If a race has junior women am pretty sure it has to be less than 45 minutes. I believe a rule is coming in for next season that will fine organisers that don't put on a junior women's race a fine equivalent to the prize money. So fingers crossed we should see more longer elite and junior women's races from next season.NorrisHippocampe18-11-2024
- Of course he CAN. Big salary in cycling is not when you win but when they talk about you (and your team / sponsors). For every news about Jonas, MVdP or Wout there are 10 times more(!) news about Pidcock (like everyday for last 2 months?). Since cycling is advertising sport not competitive sport (in terms of from money comes from) Pidcock is winner and GOAT - change my mind. ;-)averagecyclist18-11-2024
- Why do the women CXs keep getting short changed with the length of theor races? They could have easily done another lap to put them at 50 minutes which is their time limit. Yet another CX race where they fail to reach this when they had a chance to. Come on ... the math isn't that hard to figure out lap times and divide into 50 min!frieders318-11-2024
- All pro cyclists are massively underpaid! The amount of riding and physical exertion they put their bodies through is crazy compared to other sports. I can't think of any other sport where you are physically active at a very high level of power output for hours on end each day.Pogboom17-11-2024
- When I was working for Starkist/Heinz my manager quit. So the next week my group was put under another manager. During our first meeting he asked if there was anything we needed to tell him. I said that I would be out the following week on vacation. He said "I don't know if I can let you go on vacation". I replied, "You can't tell if I can go. You can only tell me if I can come back".Sweep17-11-2024
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- What a mess there :-)
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