Richard Carapaz is to become a Team Ineos rider from the
start of next year, signing a three-year deal with the squad.
The Giro winner back in May, Carapaz is missing from the
Vuelta as he crashed in a race in Holland two weeks ago.
However, his signing for Team Ineos was long rumoured and
has now been formally announced by the British WorldTour outfit.
It means the team now has four riders in its ranks who
have won a Grand Tour this season or last; Chris Froome, Egan Bernal and
Geraint Thomas all staying with the squad.
There are also a number of up and coming riders in the
fold, including Pavel Sivakov, Ivan Sosa, Eddie Dunbar and a number of others.
In winning the Giro back in May, 26-year-old Carapaz
became the first Ecuadorian ever to win a Grand Tour.
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“I am very excited about joining the team. I feel this is
a great opportunity for me to continue my development and growth as a rider, working
with a team that continues to go from strength-to-strength, year after year,”
he said.
“I already know a lot of the riders on the team and I am
really looking forward to working everyone at Team Ineos from next season.
“I believe I will fit into this group well and race to my
full potential over the coming years. I want to achieve some great triumphs for
Team Ineos.”
Team principal, Dave
Brailsford, said he was “very pleased”
to welcome Giro champion Carapaz to the team.
“We have
been long time admirers of his talents as a bike rider and have followed his
development closely over a number of years, as we have always marked him out as a potential member of our team,” he
said.
“He is obviously a fantastic climber but also has great
versatility as he showed at the Giro earlier this year.
“He is
still relatively young and I have no doubt he can develop and improve even further at Team Ineos.”
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