168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ineos Grenadiers begin a new chapter in their long history at this year's Tour de France: 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:TotalEnergies comes on boaꦛrd as a major sponsor, Geraint Thomas will compete in his last Tour, and Dave Brailsford returns to cycling as head of Ineos Sp💛ort aft🌌er his hiatus in football at Manchester United.
Brailsford is expected to attend much of the Tour de France as Thomas enjoys his 'last dance' at the Tour before taking up a management role. On the road, I𝓀neos Grenadiers are chasing Tour success with GC leader Carlos Rodriguez, Filippo Ganna, new British champion Sam Watson and others.
"Dave's got stuck straight in. There's no doubt about that, and he loves it," team manager John Allert said in a video call with a select group of media, including Cyclingnews, after the team arrived in Lille for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France Grand Depart.
"He's like a kid in a sweet shop talking about ꦉclimbs, and getting back to the mountains. For him, that's the battlefi🙈eld that he knows and knows and loves.
"We've welcomed him back into the team with open arms. He's a kind of not-so-secret weapon for us to use, and we plan on using him to the fullest extent we can. It's great t🅠o have him back."
Ineos Grenadiers denied that delays in naming their final eight riders for the Tour de France were due to hands-on involvement from Brailsford, blaming recent rider illness and injury a🐈s a key factor.
Alongside Rodríguez, Thomas, Watson, aꩵnd Ganna, the Ineos roster includes Thymen Arensman, Tobias Foss, Axel Laurance and Connor Swift.
Rodríguez could repeat his fifth place overall of 2023 or do even better but Ineos lacks the type of big-name contender the team had during their heady days as Team Sky,♍ when Bradley Wiggins won the Tour in 2012 and then Chris Froome won four times between 2013 and 2017. Thomas finished third in t🥃he 2024 Giro d'Italia but was last on the Tour podium in 2022.
Brailsford's return to direct involvement in the team is part of t♍heir p🎶lan to return to Tour de France success.
"We want to win the Tour, but there's no point just saying you want t♔o win the Tour, you've got to do something about it. That in part, is why it's great to welcome Dave back into the fold. Dave loves a performance c♍hallenge, and this is the biggest one there," Allert said.
"Dave and everyone at Ineos, everyone in the team, we all want to win the Tour. We've got to do more than we're doing, We've got to get better than the people that are dominating at the moment. That's what we're doing. We're getting stuck in and that's our mission𝔉. That's why it's great to have Dave as part of it."
Cyclingnews saw how the TotalEnergies logo fills a huge part of the Ineos Grenadiers team bus and other vehicles in Lille for the Tour Grand Depart. The giant French oil and energy compꦛany has officially come on board for a 'jersey partnership' but is likely to have invested close to the €20 million the team was said to be looking for. When TotalEnerges ends its title sponsorship of Jean-René Bernaudeau's French ProTeam after 2026, it may become a true title sponsor, alongside Ineos.
TotalEnergies' investment should help Ineos regain the status of 'sup💃er team' up there with UAE Team Emirates-XRG, Visma-Lease a Bike and Lidl-Trek.
"I'd like to think tꦬhat from 2010 we earned the right to be called a super team. We're a super team that needs to win more," Allert said.
ꦫ"It's not cheap to win and budgets keep going up. Once we were at the top of that heap and were not any more. It's not just about money, it's also about competence and strategy and resources, hard work and all those good things."
Ineos r♓ecently announced that Adidas will become a clothing sponsor, while a new꧋ bike sponsor might be coming on board in 2026.
"Tota𒁏l as a partner for Ineos is hugely hel🐽pful, industrially and in a sporting sense," Allert said.
"Bringing on other partners like Adidas is helpful too and we've got other discussions going on,🏅 we haven't finiཧshed yet.
"It's fantasti𓂃c to realise that we've got something that is attracting investment and also in𒈔teresting riders for next year and beyond. But the journey continues.
"Geraint's retirement doesn't mark the end of a chapter. We're a GC team that wants to win the Tour and th﷽at's never changed. We've become slightly more expressive and aggressive and flamboyant in the way we race. That's down to the amazing guys pulling on the jersey.
"It's a continuum and I'd like to think in ten years' time you can se🦩e this era as a pivot poin🐓t to a new chapter of success."
