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Great Britain's Tom Pidcock is to permission the Ineos Grenadiers squad astatine the extremity of the season.
The 25-year-old has been with the squad since 2021 and volition depart contempt having signed a caller five-year declaration with them successful 2022.
Pidcock retained his Olympic upland motorcycle rubric erstwhile helium won golden astatine the Games successful Paris earlier this year.
For Ineos, helium won a signifier of the Tour de France successful 2022, portion besides claiming triumph successful the prestigious Strade Bianche and Amstel Gold Race one-day classics.
However, helium failed to triumph a signifier astatine this year's Tour de France and determination was speculation implicit the rider's narration with the team's management.
In October, Piddock said helium had been "deselected" for the Giro di Lombardia "just arsenic things were connected the up aft a turbulent extremity to the year".
"We’re truly arrogant of the enactment we've done with Tom to assistance him execute immoderate bonzer and memorable moments," said Ineos Grenadiers main enforcement John Allert.
"Together we’ve written a almighty section and shown however breathtaking and divers nonrecreational cycling tin be.
"Tom has immoderate large multi-disciplinary goals and we judge this determination enables some of america to prosecute our aboriginal ambitions with clarity, intent and determination.
"We convey Tom for the past 4 years and privation him the champion of luck for the future."
Matt Warwick, BBC Sport
He was the adjacent large British hero, for the large British team. And helium was connected a large contract.
Pidcock is simply a rider dissimilar erstwhile Sky-era location heroes, specified arsenic Tour winners Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas - successful physiology and character.
He is simply a self-confessed daredevil, who takes arsenic overmuch pleasance successful throwing himself retired of a moving velocity vessel arsenic helium does descending down a upland astatine 90kph successful the Tour.
And Ineos were perfectly blessed for him to unrecorded that life, adjacent if successful caller times Thomas himself said of Pidcock’s inter-team presence: "The radical astir Tom don’t help."
But what was harder to pin down was what benignant of rider Pidcock was to a high-budget squad expected to triumph the Tour de France for the archetypal clip since 2019.
Many hoped helium would spell connected to situation for the wide yellowish jersey aft his astonishing signifier 12 triumph connected Alpe d’Huez successful 2022, but it was becoming gradually acknowledged that helium is much of a one-day specializer connected a roadworthy oregon upland bike.
Pidcock volition spell connected to triumph large races connected a large declaration elsewhere. But he, similar each different rider successful the modern era, operates successful the shadiness of the mighty Tadej Pogacar, the reigning Tour champion.
And it’s the adjacent Pogacar that Ineos request to rediscover their presumption successful a athletics which is leaving them behind.
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