{"id":306216,"date":"2025-12-09T03:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306216\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:19:07","slug":"jack-haig-signs-on-as-an-ineos-grenadier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306216\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Haig signs on as an INEOS Grenadier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text x15bjb6t x1n2onr6\">The INEOS Grenadiers are pleased to confirm that Jack Haig will join the team in 2026, on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text x15bjb6t x1n2onr6\">The 32-year-old Australian arrives with a wealth of Grand Tour experience and over a decade competing at the highest level. A respected figure in the peloton, Haig claimed third overall at the 2021 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and has delivered a number of top-10 finishes at both the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 and Paris-Nice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text x15bjb6t x1n2onr6\">Jack Haig said: \u201cI\u2019m really excited to be joining the INEOS Grenadiers. It\u2019s a team I\u2019ve followed closely since it started, and they\u2019ve achieved so many great things in their history. To now be part of one of the best and most ambitious teams in the world, known for its professionalism and extremely high standards, is something I\u2019m super proud of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text x15bjb6t x1n2onr6\">\u201cI can\u2019t wait to get the season started, meet my new teammates, and play my part in challenging for future successes. I\u2019m also looking forward to supporting some of the talented young guys who\u2019ve joined the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text x15bjb6t x1n2onr6\">Geraint Thomas, Director of Racing, said: \u201cI raced wheel to wheel against Jack for many years and he\u2019s always impressed me. He\u2019s a fighter and a grafter, and he knows what it takes to stand on the podium at a Grand Tour. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be a big part of what we\u2019re going after in the next few years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The INEOS Grenadiers are pleased to confirm that Jack Haig will join the team in 2026, on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-306216","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\/306216","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=306216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}