Mikel Rural will continue one more year in the ranks of the Soudal Quick-Step. It was an open secret but this Wednesday, and on the eve that the Alavés cyclist competes from next Friday in the Tour of Italy, the Belgian team has announced the renewal of the Landa contract until the end of the 2026 season.
From the Soudal Quick-Step, they emphasize that, since its arrival in 2024, Landa “has achieved numerous outstanding results: since being second in the Volta to Catalonia to achieve its top-10 in the Dauphiné and from an outstanding Fifth in the Tour de France while helping Remco Evenepoel to a solid eighth place in the Tour of Spain. ”
In statements collected by the team, Landa expressed his joy for the merits achieved to gain this renewal. “I am very happy to continue with ‘La Manada’ (The Wolfpack, as the team is called). I feel one more and I am at home after a season and a half and I am anxious to fight for new goals. I have already achieved very beautiful memories, from my first exit with the team, when I helped Remco win in Algarve, to be runner -up in the Volta to Catalonia and support Remco in the Tour de France, where he managed to finish on the podium after a great work of the team. ”
A Landa that, however, dreams of getting greater merits in the team after confirming its continuity, starting with the next Italian turn. “If we look forward, I would like to be on the podium of the Italian turn! It is my dream and I will fight for him! Three years have passed since my last participation and I am excited to be here again. I have had a love-hate relationship with this career, with very beautiful moments and some more difficult, but that does not stop my dream of being able to do something beautiful here. After the turn, I will go very motivated to the tour, hoping that my experience and effort can help Remco be on the podium. ”
-The UAE keeps Adam Yates and Grosschartner with Pogacar
Mikel Landa’s has not been the only renewal we have met on Wednesday before the Tour of Italy, since another of the great figures present in the ‘Corsa Rosa’, the British Adam Yates, has also confirmed its continuity in the UAE Emirateswhere it will continue to be one of the great support of Tadej Pogacar.
Yates has renewed for the next three seasons And he will continue on the team until 2028 after being one of the supports for Tadej Pogacar in the Tour de France 2023, where the British also won the first stage in Bilbao and finished third in the general; And in 2024, where he ayed Pogacar recovered his throne on the tour and end again in the Top-10 of the test despite working as Gregario.
Adam Yates’s is not the only renewal announced by the UAE, since the Austrian Felix Grosschartner, that helped Pogacar in the conquest of the Italian turn last year, will remain linked to the team until season 2027.
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