{"id":288175,"date":"2025-11-28T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288175\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:43:14","slug":"we-always-wanted-to-work-discreetly-dates-for-team-camp-and-presentation-of-new-intermarche-lotto-team-finalised-as-reports-of-progress-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288175\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We always wanted to work discreetly’ \u2013 Dates for team camp and presentation of new Intermarch\u00e9-Lotto team finalised as reports of progress emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"

After weeks of near-silence were broken on Friday by the confirmation of Biniam Girmay’s departure from Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty<\/a> at the end of the season, quiet but solid progress on the squad’s upcoming fusion with Lotto <\/a>is now also reported to be taking place.<\/p>\n

Criticisms of the prolonged uncertainty surrounding the futures of riders affected by the fusion had been made by CPA president Adam Hansen<\/a>, partly as a result of the dearth of available information, former Lotto team manager Marc Sergeant described it to Derni\u00e8re Heure<\/a> as “a fiasco”, and retired Lotto rider Thomas de Gendt, writing for Cyclingnews, directly described the ongoing situation surrounding the fusion as “a bit of a shit-show.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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However, according to Het Laatste Nieuws, <\/a>the teams’ respective management had deliberately opted to take a low-profile approach about the upcoming fusion \u2013 and now, finally, some concrete details have emerged.<\/p>\n

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Quite apart from Girmay’s long-expected exit, it’s also emerged that the team will hold two training camps in Spain, HLN<\/a> says, with the first running from December 6-20. Then there will be a team presentation on January 12 in the team’s service course in Temse, Belgium, followed by a second training camp in Spain, starting January 13.<\/p>\n

Describing the lack of news as “a compliment,” Lotto’s Gregory Maes \u2013 a board director in the team and member of the Captains of Cycling company which owns the team told the Belgian newspaper that “We always wanted to work discreetly.”<\/p>\n

“This is a scenario which isn’t straightforward, and it’s maybe a unique one in cycling.”<\/p>\n

While the team’s 2026 bikes have already been delivered and the new jersey is ‘90% ready’, according to the newspaper, the merger will likely not be officialised before the UCI announces the list of WorldTour teams for the next 2023-2025 cycle, expected shortly after the UCI WorldTour Congress on December 10.<\/p>\n

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It has also been reported by HLN<\/a> that Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty and Lotto’s respective development teams will continue to exist as separate entities.<\/p>\n

However, with some unspecified financial issues still unresolved, the newspaper concluded that “The fact is that there is still a lot to be ‘cleaned up’ and many [Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty] riders and staff members, unlike Lotto, still don’t know exactly where they stand at the moment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After weeks of near-silence were broken on Friday by the confirmation of Biniam Girmay’s departure from Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288175","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=288175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}