IPT\u00a0announced alongside its proposed rebrand that Adams would step down from the day-to-day running of the team in order to focus on his Presidency of the World Jewish Congress. The team has temporarily removed their website and social media presence before announcing their new brand.<\/p>\n
>\u00a0Israel-Premier Tech cycling team to \u201crebrand and rename\u201d for 2026, \u201cmoving away from Israeli identity\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Previously, the head of the Island Council Antonio Morales said “Gran Canaria is not willing to whitewash genocide and Israel’s actions through sport or any other means”.\u00a0<\/p>\n He said: “We will see what happens in the coming months, but of course, with Israel’s participation, Gran Canaria will not host the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.”<\/p>\n The speculation throws a spanner in the works for the Vuelta organisers Unipublic and its parent company ASO.\u00a0The race, which will start with an individual time trial in Monaco was widely reported\u00a0to finish on the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria. The Vuelta route presentation is due to take place on Wednesday 17th December.\u00a0<\/p>\n Madrid is unlikely to host the final stage following last year’s protests which resulted in the final stage and formal podium ceremony being abandoned. The race finale also clashes with the Spanish Grand Prix.<\/p>\n As a World Tour team,\u00a0IPT\u00a0(under their new identity) are automatically invited and expected\u00a0to\u00a0participate. The currently unnamed team are also without a title sponsor after Canadian agri-tech company Premier Tech announced its withdrawal from the team, saying the situation “has become untenable for us to continue”. Premier-Tech subsequently announced it would become a partner of the Women’s World Tour squad\u00a0St Michel – Preference Home – Auber93 team.<\/p>\n > “It has become untenable for us to continue”: Israel-Premier Tech’s title sponsor steps down<\/a><\/p>\n If the reporting is accurate, then the Island Council’s view aligns with that of Derek Gee-West, who is currently engaged in\u00a0a legal battle with his former employer and has described the team’s rebranding<\/a> as “cosmetic structural shifts”. Israel-Premier Tech are suing their rider for\u00a0\u20ac30 million of damages.<\/p>\n Before announcing he would step back, Adams was an active owner of the team and attended the Vuelta a\u00a0Espa\u00f1a\u00a0earlier this year when the team were the target of multiple protests. He was also a prominent supporter of Israel’s war in Gaza before a ceasefire was agreed. During the Vuelta he said he was proud<\/a> of his team’s actions\u00a0for\u00a0“not surrendering to the terrorists”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canary Islands has refused to host the finale of next year’s Vuelta a\u00a0Espa\u00f1a\u00a0if the team currently known…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Israel-Premier](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/zw-2480_0.jpg\" "\\"Israel-Premier")
Israel-Premier Tech\u2019s Marco Frigo rides past spectator with Palestine flag, stage 7, 2025 Vuelta (cropped) (credit: SWpix.com\/Zac Williams)<\/p>\n![\"Sylvan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/am20397.jpg\" "\\"Sylvan")
Sylvan Adams at the 2023 UCI world cycling championships Gran Fondo, Perth (credit: Allan McKenzie\/SWpix.com)<\/p>\n