Is Ineos the new QuickStep?
On paper, Opening Weekend was hardly the strongest of starts for the new-look Ineos Grenadiers: 18th place in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and 29th at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne was as good as it got. And yet directeur sportif Roger Hammond was effusive about ‘the attitude, the desire and the hunger’ of his team, claiming, ‘If the guys ride like that then the results will follow.’
Hammond didn’t hold back. ‘I’ve not seen many team performances like that in my lifetime,’ he gushed. To the casual observer it was akin to
