Three cyclo-cross riders who didn’t have groups for 2026 got a uncommon alternative to complete out the season with a brief crew that can run by means of February.
Part of the Alpecin-Deceuninck organisation that additionally runs the Fenix-Deceuninck girls’s crew, Crew EKOÏ will assist Ryan Kamp, Lauren Molengraaf and Hélène Clauzel from January 1 by means of the top of February.
Kamp, the Nineteenth-best elite male cyclo-cross racer to date this season, has been racing below Fenix colors, Molengraaf was not renewed with the Charles-Liegeois Roastery CX crew that was a part of the Wanty organisation, and 14th-ranked Clauzel has been racing with out sponsors.
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Basic Supervisor Philip Roodhooft defined why the organisation added one other crew alongside the lads’s and ladies’s WorldTour groups and improvement groups and their multi-discipline riders like Mathieu van der Poel, Puck Pieterse, Tibor del Grosso and Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado.
„Regardless of our development, cyclo-cross is the place we come from. It’s the self-discipline that formed our identification,“ he mentioned within the press launch. Each Christoph [Roodhooft, co-manager] and me see it as our mission to maintain the game engaging and aggressive.
„With Crew EKOÏ, we wish to give three riders the possibility to maintain combating for his or her place on the highest degree. They deserve an expert surroundings, robust steering and the suitable gear. And because of the assist of EKOÏ and Colnago, we will provide precisely that by means of the top of the season. After that, we’ll sit down collectively and see what the longer term might carry.“
The crew is a ‚bridging venture‘ that can permit all three riders to have full skilled assist, together with efficiency and diet teaching and top-notch gear.
Though explicitly momentary, the venture will likely be re-evaluated in February.
