{"id":405676,"date":"2026-01-11T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405676\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:26:17","slug":"why-not-mikel-landa-considers-racing-all-three-grand-tours-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405676\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhy not?\u201d – Mikel Landa considers racing all three Grand Tours in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

With several major World Tour structures already unveiled for 2026, including UAE Team Emirates and Lidl-Trek, the launch calendar is entering its final stretch. This Thursday saw Soudal – Quick-Step<\/a>‘s media day in Calpe and here, Mikel Landa<\/a> revealed that he is considering racing all three Grand Tours in 2026.The headline news from the Belgian squad\u2019s presentation was the confirmation of long-term stability for the project. In a landscape where some teams have struggled to stay in the WorldTour \u2014 Arkea, for example, disappeared this season due to financial issues \u2014 Soudal Quick-Step announced Soudal\u2019s continued title sponsorship through the end of 2030. A guarantee for the future despite the departure of its leading figure, Remco Evenepoel<\/a>, who now races for Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe.Far from a roster overhaul, the team has chosen a clearly conservative strategy, partly because the biggest market opportunities vanished quickly. In that context, Valentin Paret-Peintre recently extended his contract through 2028, while Paul Magnier, 21 and the second rider with the most wins last season \u2014 only Tadej Pogacar had more \u2014 prolonged his deal to 2029. For the Grand Tours, Mikel Landa<\/a> will be the main reference point, while the structure banks on a step forward from Ilan Van Wilder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With several major World Tour structures already unveiled for 2026, including UAE Team Emirates and Lidl-Trek, the launch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,163619,204311,17833,85,2845,39562],"class_list":["post-405676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-mikel-landa","tag-soudal-quick-step","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france","tag-vuelta-a-espana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405676","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=405676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}