{"id":643998,"date":"2026-05-02T02:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643998\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:20:15","slug":"the-ineos-grenadiers-and-dorian-godon-just-keep-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643998\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ineos Grenadiers and Dorian Godon just keep winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/godonwins.jpeg\" alt=\"The Ineos Grenadiers and Dorian Godon just keep winning\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">The Ineos Grenadiers are already one WorldTour win shy of their total from last year and it&#8217;s only the first week of May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__thumbnail-caption\">It&#8217;s not often that the guy on the right is not the one celebrating the win.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dane Cash\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dane-Cash-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cor Vos<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t look now, but the Ineos Grenadiers seem to have rediscovered an old pastime. Just in time for the arrival of new co-sponsor Netcompany, the artists formerly known as Team Sky are actually winning bike races again. A lot of them, and at the WorldTour level, no less.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday at the Tour de Romandie, Dorian Godon stormed to <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/godon-outkicks-fisher-black-to-win-romandie-stage-3\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yet another victory<\/a> in what has been a stellar first few months with his new team. Godon may not have been the Ineos Grenadiers&#8217; offseason signing earning the most fanfare \u2013\u00a0that honor probably goes to K\u00e9vin Vauquelin or maybe Oscar Onley \u2013 but he is certainly the team&#8217;s most prolific performer in the early goings of 2026, and his hot start to the season got even hotter as he won a reduced sprint to take stage 3 in Romandie.<\/p>\n<p>It was his second win in four days at a race where the other two stages have gone to the best rider in the world. That rider could only acknowledge Godon&#8217;s dominance after settling for fourth behind Godon, Finn Fisher-Black, and Valentin Paret-Peintre on stage 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he kicks with a heavy gear, he\u2019s long gone,&#8221; Tadej Poga\u010dar told Cycling Pro Net of Godon&#8217;s impressive turn of speed.<\/p>\n<p>The win was Godon&#8217;s fifth WorldTour victory of the year, bringing him even with Poga\u010dar&#8217;s UAE teammate Isaac del Toro tied for sixth in the WorldTour peloton. The top five is a who&#8217;s who of stars who, frankly, get a lot more hype than Godon. The Romandie stage 3 win was also the 12th WorldTour win of the season so far for the team that will soon be known as <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/rebranded-netcompany-ineos-cycling-team-puts-ai-at-the-heart-of-its-new-five-year-partnership\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netcompany-Ineos<\/a>. That number felt pretty high, so we decided to dig a bit deeper.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, the British outfit has in fact racked up more WorldTour victories this season than anyone else other than UAE, and even that super-team has just one more WorldTour win. Ineos is also now just one WorldTour win short of their 2025 total, and it&#8217;s only May 1.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a look at the WorldTour win totals for each top-division team in 2025 and so far in 2026 can actually tell us some interesting things about Ineos and the peloton more generally. Please turn your attention to Figure 1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/winsgraph.jpeg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1291\" height=\"2440\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>                This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"69f506bc2d50301f4122adc1\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/ineos-grenadiers\/\" title=\"Ineos Grenadiers\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29249 ineos-grenadiers\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ineos Grenadiers<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing The Ineos Grenadiers are already one WorldTour win shy of their total from last year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-643998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643998","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=643998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}