EF Training-EasyPost named their 2024 WorldTour group, saying 9 new riders and one of many youngest groups within the high tier at a mean age of 26.
“We have mixture of riders. Some are arriving at their peak, we have got some riders who’re at their peak, after which we have got this new wave of riders coming in,” head sports activities director Charly Wegelius stated.
Of the 9 incoming riders, seven are making their WorldTour debut, together with Archie Ryan from the Jumbo-Visma growth group, Lukas Nerurkar from Trinity Racing, Markel Beloki, the son of Spaniard Joseba Beloki, Eire’s Darren Rafferty, who received the Giro Valle d’Aosta-Mont Blanc and was second on the Giro Subsequent Gen with Hagens Berman Axeon this 12 months, Britain’s Jack Rootkin-Grey, from the group’s growth squad, Japanese rider Yuhi Todome and Jardi van der Lee who raced with the group as a trainee on the Tour de Langkawi.
The transfers of Rui Costa from Intermarché-Circus-Wanty and Harry Sweeny from Lotto Dstny have been already introduced.
“It is a very long time since we have had such a younger roster,” Wegelius stated. “There’s lots of optimism as a result of we imagine in them. We’re ready to provide them the house to learn the way they should develop, and we’ll additionally give them the house to work by way of that. As a group, we do effectively at adapting to what we discover as soon as we begin to work with the riders, so I would say we’re feeling lots of optimism with out the burden of any specific expectations.”
The group tasked former rider Sebastian Langeveld with scouting younger expertise for the primary time and he was happy with the group of riders signed.
“What we did rather well was to keep up a correspondence with these younger riders, to point out the group in a constructive approach, but additionally in an sincere and lifelike approach,” Langeveld stated. “I did not chase them down or fly to their houses. It isn’t an excellent fancy story of how we signed them, however I believe the way in which we went final 12 months as a group, with lots of victories early on, and the way we approached the riders, helped make us an excellent enticing group. That is why younger guys need to signal for us.
“I am tremendous excited to see what they’re able to within the upcoming 12 months, however it’s actually a course of to see them develop over two or extra years. I am fairly assured we’ll see some good development in our roster.”
The group additionally mirrored on the success of riders like Ben Healy and Neilson Powless and plans to proceed to race aggressively subsequent 12 months.
“We have to maintain doing what we have carried out effectively,” Wegelius stated. “Taking part in on our strengths. We have made some good steps ahead. A rider like Ben Healy, we have been tremendous enthusiastic about what he did final 12 months and need to see what he does going ahead. Neilson Powless additionally took some huge leaps. After which we’ve riders who’re one thing of the completed product, riders like Alberto Bettiol and Richard Carapaz.”
EF Training-EasyPost for 2024
- Andrey Amador
- Markel Beloki
- Alberto Bettiol
- Stefan Bissegger
- Richard Carapaz
- Simon Carr
- Hugh Carthy
- Alexander Cepeda
- Esteban Chaves
- Rui Costa
- Stefan de Bod
- Owain Doull
- Ben Healy
- Mikkel Honore
- Lachlan Morton
- Lukas Nerurkar
- Andrea Piccolo
- Neilson Powless
- Sean Quinn
- Darren Rafferty
- Jack Rootkin-Grey
- Jonas Rutsch
- Archie Ryan
- James Shaw
- Georg Steinhauser
- Harry Sweeny
- Yuhi Todome
- Rigoberto Urán
- Michael Valgren
- Marijn van den Berg
- Jardi van der Lee