{"id":348612,"date":"2025-12-16T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348612\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:40:09","slug":"still-plenty-to-unlock-confirmation-that-sam-welsford-will-be-launching-from-the-dialled-lead-out-of-ineos-grenadiers-in-2026-and-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348612\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Still plenty to unlock’ \u2013 Confirmation that Sam Welsford will be launching from the ‘dialled’ lead-out of Ineos Grenadiers in 2026 and 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news wasn’t exactly a shock given Sam Welsford<\/a> had already been spotted at the Ineos Grenadiers team camp<\/a> earlier in December, but now the Australian sprinter’s place on the team for the next two seasons has been confirmed and the British squad is getting set to revive its ‘dialled’ lead-out.<\/p>\n

While sprinting hasn’t always been high on the priority list at the team across its existence, the squad did deliver a reminder that they had what it takes to deliver a fast finisher as recently as this year when they helped revive the winning ways of another Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan<\/a>, who then signed off from his career mid-season on a strong note.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe haven\u2019t had many sprinters in the team in the past but when we have, they\u2019ve been pretty successful, so hopefully Sam can continue that history,” said Ineos Grenadiers<\/a> Director of Racing Geraint Thomas.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving been given an early insight into what he\u2019s capable of physically, we believe there\u2019s still plenty to unlock with Sam. The team has shown how dialled we are in positioning our fast guys for the finish, and we\u2019ll do the same to give him opportunities to win.”<\/p>\n

When Ineos brought Ewan on board a big part of his programme to try and get back the winning speed that had taken him to five stage wins at both the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia was track training, a path right up Welsford’s alley. After his late signing in a perilously tight market Welsford will work with new sport director and recently-retired sprinter \u2013 and multiple track world champion \u2013 Elia Viviani to help set in train a successful path at his new team, which will be his third since adding WorldTour racing to his track commitments in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got a great track pedigree \u2013 Olympic and multiple world champion in the team pursuit \u2013 so the way he\u2019s used to working there will fit right into our team environment as well. I\u2019m super excited to see him get stuck in,\u201d said Thomas.<\/p>\n

The rider, who was part of Australia’s Olympic gold-medal-winning Team Pursuit team in Paris, has won three stages of the Santos Tour Down Under each of the past two years with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe<\/a>. Still the 29-year-old so far hasn’t managed to keep the WorldTour wins rolling through the rest of the season but his could be just the trigger he needs to change that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel like this is the exact right environment for me to keep progressing as a sprinter and to chase big results,” said Welsford. “I\u2019m very hungry to contribute, to learn and to race with the kind of intent that this team is renowned for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news wasn’t exactly a shock given Sam Welsford had already been spotted at the Ineos Grenadiers team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-348612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}