{"id":488684,"date":"2026-02-20T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488684\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:30:10","slug":"george-hincapie-overjoyed-by-modern-adventures-stellar-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488684\/","title":{"rendered":"George Hincapie overjoyed by Modern Adventure’s stellar debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

And there’s many more stories like these that we’re yet to uncover during this season thanks to the project of George Hincapie<\/a> who beams with pride following the first months on the road: “13 months ago, we decided to pursue this project, and now we’re here. What an adventure,” Hincapie tells Sporza<\/a> from United Arab Emirates – Modern Adventure’s first WorldTour race. “We’re competing in a WorldTour race with relatively unknown riders. It’s exceeded our wildest expectations.”<\/p>\n

And the UAE Tour participation is not an exemption as the American project had great response from big race organizers who have included the “greenhorn team” even for a Monument – Paris Roubaix – later this spring.<\/p>\n

A special race for team owner George Hincapie who came close to winning this Monument a handful of time (including a second place in 2005), but it was not meant to be for the American. “You know Roubaix is \u200b\u200bmy dream race. I still dream of it. Now we’re going with our team and we’re trying to make that race a success.”<\/p>\n

The project won’t settle down for just Paris-Roubaix. As every new ProTeam, even Modern Adventure dream of a Tour de France, even though it might be a goal too soon to realistically reach within the current 2026-2028 UCI cycle. But Hincapie reckons it’s not impossible to tick off this box already in this decade. “We want to go to the Tour. We’re giving ourselves five years.”<\/p>\n

Beyond just performance, Hincapie hopes their project will have the outreach necessary to incentivize a re-birth of the US racing scene which currently consists only of the Maryland and the new Philly Classics. “We also want to revitalize cycling in the States. We want to become the American team with many American riders. I don’t know all the answers to how we can revive cycling in the US, but hopefully this project will help.”<\/p>\n

Hincapie is returning to the peloton after years in the shadows. “It’s very special, and I feel honored. I owe this sport a lot, and hopefully, I can repay cycling with this team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And there’s many more stories like these that we’re yet to uncover during this season thanks to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,128736,128737,82],"class_list":["post-488684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-george-hincapie","tag-modern-adventure-pro-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488684","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=488684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}