{"id":225246,"date":"2025-10-25T19:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225246\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:59:08","slug":"sonny-colbrelli-departs-bahrain-victorious-as-sports-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225246\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Colbrelli departs Bahrain Victorious as sports director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"d061f0d3-a8f3-406b-bb10-235299b55a03\">Former Paris-Roubaix champion Sonny Colbrelli will leave his role of sports director at Bahrain Victorious after just over three seasons in the post, according to a report in <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Ciclismo\/25-10-2025\/bahrain-victorious-cambi-nello-staff-tecnico-out-colbrelli-entra-gasparotto.shtml?refresh_ce\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Ciclismo\/25-10-2025\/bahrain-victorious-cambi-nello-staff-tecnico-out-colbrelli-entra-gasparotto.shtml?refresh_ce\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Colbrelli joined the staff of the team with which he was rider since 2017 following his retirement from the sport in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"d061f0d3-a8f3-406b-bb10-235299b55a03-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Joining the team in the same role will be Enrico Gasparotto, who recently departed Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe following four seasons as DS with the German team, who themselves have undergone significant restructuring on the staff side.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">There was currently no indication of whether Colbrelli would continue his management career with another team. The 2021 <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/sonny-colbrelli-set-to-retire-after-cardiac-arrhythmia-ends-hope-of-a-comeback\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/sonny-colbrelli-set-to-retire-after-cardiac-arrhythmia-ends-hope-of-a-comeback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris-Roubaix winner was forced to retire from the sport early in the 2022 season<\/a>, after he collapsed at the Volta a Catalunya and was diagnosed with an unstable cardiac arrhythmia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Bahrain Victorious finished the 2025 season 10th in the UCI team rankings, following just eight victories, half of which were achieved by 22-year-old Frenchman Lenny Martinez. Damiano Caruso finished fifth overall at the Giro d&#8217;Italia, while the squad itself finished second overall behind UAE Team Emirates-XRG in the team standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">In the coming seasons, Bahrain Victorious will be structured around the experience of Martinez, Caruso, Antonio Tiberi and Santiago Buitrago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Young talent Jakob Omrzel of Slovenia is a future hope for the team&#8217;s GC ambitions. The 19-year-old won this year&#8217;s Giro Next Gen under-23 race, earning a promotion to the WorldTour team from 2026, after just one year on the team&#8217;s development squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Paris-Roubaix champion Sonny Colbrelli will leave his role of sports director at Bahrain Victorious after just over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-225246","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\/225246","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=225246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}