Ineos Grenadiers want to race 'like Brazil' as Geraint Thomas leads Tour squad
Ineos Grenadiers will race "like Brazil" in 2021
as Briton Geraint Thomas goes for Tour de France victory, says team boss Sir
Dave Brailsford.
Brailsford wa
nts the team to adapt to the more spontaneous style of racing that propelled Tao Geoghegan Hart to Giro d'Italia success in 2020 view more info….
"It chimed with a lot of people and it chimed with
me," he said.
Welshman Thomas, who won the Tour in 2018, will be supported
by a strong team that includes Geoghegan Hart.
British team Ineos (formerly Team Sky) have won 11 Grand
Tours since entering the sport in 2010. Their dominant style of racing has
become known as the 'Sky train' - an apparently impenetrable line of riders
whose metronomic tempo and scientific approach beat teams more focused on a traditional
style of racing view
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But Brailsford said his riders had "really
enjoyed" the way they approached last year's Giro.
Thomas in talks to extend Ineos contract
'The sport is changing and I feel very invigorated'
Last year, for the first time since 2014, Ineos failed in
their main objective - to win the Tour. Defending champion Egan Bernal lost
more than seven minutes to the leaders on stage 15, and eventually abandoned
with a back injury view
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After Thomas, 34, succumbed to injury at the Giro, the team
took a less formulaic approach, and 25-year-old Briton Geoghegan Hart won his
first Grand Tour.
"We're not changing this year but continuing what we
started last year - a more opportunistic and adaptable team," said
Brailsford view
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"We need to adapt our style - take opportunities when
they arise as a mindset.
"Having got a lot of victories, people did say it's not
great for sport: 'Where's the suspense? It's too predictable and too
dominant...'
"We've thought long and hard about it - is it
Terminator or Zorro? Is it Germany or Brazil, dare I say? Maybe it's preparing
like Germany and playing like Brazil." view
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