{"id":223139,"date":"2025-10-24T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223139\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:38:06","slug":"ef-education-easypost-to-venture-into-cyclocross-with-three-rider-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223139\/","title":{"rendered":"EF Education-EasyPost to venture into cyclocross with three-rider program"},"content":{"rendered":"

EF Education-EasyPost<\/a> are set to venture into the world of cyclocross, the team have announced, with the creation of a three-rider program including a former junior World Champion in the speciality, Mattia Agostinacchio.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old Italian is also set to join EF’s WorldTour team next January, but now will first be racing in the team’s colours in the current cyclocross season.<\/p>\n

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His elder brother Filippo, a double U23 Italian National Champion who also won a stage on the road of the Giro NextGen, is also set to be in the squad.<\/p>\n

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The third member of the initial program will be former U23 Luxembourg cyclocross champion Nina Berton,<\/a> a third-year pro who has already been a member of the EF Education-Oatly ProTeam<\/a> since the start of 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a fun experiment for us, but one that we want to excel at,\u201d EF Pro Cycling CEO Jonathan Vaughters said in a team press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the start of the alternative calendar with Lachlan Morton<\/a>, we\u2019ve always done some pretty experimental stuff that\u2019s been a bit on the edges. This is a continuation of that, as we\u2019ve always believed that cycling should be as inclusive as possible.”<\/p>\n

“We have always wanted to bring as many people to the sport as possible, so having a cyclocross team allows us to connect with and engage a whole new audience. We\u2019re starting with a junior world champion, Mattia, his brother Filippo, and Nina, which feels like a good place to begin,\u201d Jonathan added.<\/p>\n

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Having recently competed in the Road Worlds <\/a>in Rwanda, Mattia Agostinacchio is due to participate in a full cyclocross race program prior to doing the UCI cyclo-cross World Championships<\/a> in the southern Netherlands town of Hulst next February.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a world champion, cyclocross is super important to me, so I want to give it my all,” Agostinacchio said in the same press release.<\/p>\n

“I also believe that starting to race for the team in cyclocross will really help me adapt and improve over the winter before I start to focus on the 2026 road season.”<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe see with many riders how cyclocross can help you on the road because you can learn a lot from the discipline,” Berton – whose full race program has yet to decide – said.<\/p>\n

“It’s also something cool to have in your program for the winter.”<\/p>\n

“Everyone in Luxembourg who comes up through the ranks participates in cyclocross because it\u2019s part of their development. I\u2019ve never done a full cyclocross season, but it was always an essential part of my off-season.”<\/p>\n

Combining a cyclocross program with the road has long been a staple part of squads like Visma-Lease a Bike, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Fenix-Alpecin, as well as many Belgian teams. For EF, though, this is a first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EF Education-EasyPost are set to venture into the world of cyclocross, the team have announced, with the creation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-223139","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\/223139","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=223139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}