{"id":161599,"date":"2025-09-26T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161599\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:15:07","slug":"the-inside-story-on-how-lidl-trek-signed-junior-world-champ-harry-hudson-%f0%9f%8c%88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161599\/","title":{"rendered":"The inside story on how Lidl-Trek signed junior world champ Harry Hudson \ud83c\udf08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!5eLo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25afde19-8aad-41f7-9183-51229570ba4a_1200x800.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/25afde19-8aad-41f7-9183-51229570ba4a_1200.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/25afde19-8aad-41f7-9183-51229570ba4a_1200x800.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:800,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1015694,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/dnlbenson.substack.com\/i\/174604970?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25afde19-8aad-41f7-9183-51229570ba4a_1200x800.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Harry Hudson became the first-ever British male rider to win the junior road race at the UCI Road World Championships. Photo courtesy of SWpix.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s January 2025, and an email lands in Markel Irizar\u2019s inbox from Cat Ferguson\u2019s father, Tim. The subject line simply reads \u2018Harry Hudson introduction\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Intrigued, the former Euskaltel-Euskadi and Trek Segafredo rider, who is now the Development Team Manager \/ Talent Scout at Lidl-Trek, opens the email and its attachments. What Irizar sees are some of the best climbing numbers ever produced by a 17-year-old talent.<\/p>\n<p>To coincide with the UCI Road World Championships, we\u2019re also offering a massive \u2728 20% discount \u2728 on all annual subscriptions. It\u2019s a great time to sign up and join the growing community of readers.<\/p>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/dnlbenson.substack.com\/subscribe?coupon=54ef0902&amp;utm_content=174604970&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 20% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dnlbenson.substack.com\/subscribe?coupon=54ef0902&amp;utm_content=174604970\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"button primary button-wrapper\" target=\"_blank\">Get 20% off for 1 year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In no time at all, an invitation is sent to Hudson, inviting him to do some testing on the Port de la Vall d\u2019Ebo in Spain and for Lidl-Trek to see more of the rider\u2019s profile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Hudson became the first-ever British male rider to win the junior road race at the UCI Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-161599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}