According to reports in the British press, it is the end of an era at the
INEOS Grenadiers as the longtime face of the team's behind-the-scenes staff, Sir Dave Brailsford has quit, focusing full-time on one of INEOS owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe's other teams, Manchester United.
The Telegraph reports that Brailsford, who oversaw a boom period of British Cycling and the emergence of Team Sky/INEOS Grenadiers as one of the biggest forces in the men's peloton, winning multiple Grand Tours through the likes of
Bradley Wiggins,
Chris Froome,
Geraint Thomas,
Egan Bernal and
Tao Geoghegan Hart, said his farewells to the riders and staff at their winter training camp in Majorca.