Wholesale change is happening at the top in pro cycling, but Ineos Grenadiers are struggling to keep up. The team that won at least one Grand Tour every year between 2011 and 2021 (except 2014 when Chris Froome crashed out of the Tour de France) has now failed to win any of the last seven.
Egan Bernal’s Giro d’Italia victory in 2021 marked the last time the British team stood atop the final podium of a Grand Tour – the same Bernal