Biniam Girmay has stated that his NSN Cycling Team is the only squad that can help him win a race, as he approaches the 2026 season with a highly-publicized transfer to the Switzerland-based WorldTour team.<\/p>\n
The Eritrean sprinter joined the NSN Cycling Team on a three-year contract<\/a>, announced on December 1, a team that had emerged from the acquisition and rebrand of Israel-Premier Tech<\/a>. He had already been linked to the NSN Cycling Team earlier in the year after a complicated merger of his previous team Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty and Lotto.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Girmay met with the NSN Cycling Team at a recent launch in Barcelona, where he spoke with members of the media, including Spanish news outlet AS<\/a>.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \u201cI switched to this team because I want to win everything,” he said at the team launch. \u201cThis team is the only one that can help me win a race. The only thing that matters to me is that we’re here to ride bikes and win races.”<\/p>\n The 25-year-old has already solidified himself as one of the fastest sprinters in the peloton, winning Gent-Wevelgem<\/a> and a stage at the Giro d’Italia<\/a> in 2022 and winning three stages and the points jersey at the Tour de France in 2024.<\/p>\n He said he had a tough season in 2026, despite many strong performances; he finished the year without a victory.<\/p>\n “These days, if everything isn’t 100%, it’s impossible to win. And I think that here we have the best weapons: the bikes and the teammates,” he said at the NSN Cycling Team launch.<\/p>\n Legendary Spanish footballer Andr\u00e9s Iniesta and global investment platform Stoneweg co-founded NSN. The latter is a Swiss company, and the team will race under a Swiss licence in 2026.<\/p>\n Girmay met Iniesta at the team launch and said he could have a big impact on the sport. \u201cHe\u2019s a football legend, and they\u2019re different sports, but it\u2019s incredible that someone so iconic is part of the team. I think it will help cycling move forward.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biniam Girmay has stated that his NSN Cycling Team is the only squad that can help him win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-340357","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\/340357","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=340357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}