The organisers of the Santos Excursion Down Beneath have showed that Caleb Ewan shall be on the place to begin competing along with his new staff Jayco-AlUla in 2024.
Ewan is a nine-time degree winner at his house WorldTour race, and he and his staff shall be aiming for a couple of wins all the way through the lads’s match held from January 16-21 in and round Adelaide, Australia.
“I’ve at all times loved racing in Adelaide. This can be a nice approach to get started off the yr, and the strengthen we get from Aussie crowds is improbable,” Ewan stated.
“I believe I’ve unfinished industry within the Santos Excursion Down Beneath and will’t wait to get again there, racing for Group Jayco-AlUla this January.”
Ewan is the primary rider the organisers have showed to compete within the 2024 version.
Ewan ended his contract with Lotto-Dstny a yr early, and a statement from Jayco-AlUla briefly adopted to substantiate that he would go back to the squad the place he began his occupation, transferring from the improvement staff to the WorldTour stage in 2014.
A five-time Excursion de France and Giro d’Italia degree winner, Ewan joins a staff of tough sprinters at Jayco-AlUla subsequent yr that incorporates compatriot Michael Matthews and Dylan Groenewegen.
Ewan left Lotto-Dstny after a season of anxiety and unhappiness. Kind of part of his 61 occupation professional wins have been secured all the way through his 5 seasons with Lotto. In 2023, then again, he handiest gained one match. Even supposing he was once on the subject of victory in two early sprints on the Excursion de France, he then struggled throughout the mid-race mountain phases sooner than leaving behind on degree 13, which drew out robust grievance from staff supervisor Stephane Heulot.
Stuart O’Grady, race director on the Santos Excursion Down Beneath, stated it was once a big coup having a rider of Ewan’s calibre on the place to begin, selecting out 3 of the phases he predicts Ewan will goal.
“Caleb shall be out to end up he is without doubt one of the quickest sprinters on this planet. He’s a fan favorite on the Santos Excursion Down Beneath, and we will be able to be expecting he’ll be out difficult within the Ziptrak Males’s Level 1 Tanunda to Tanunda, Level 3 Tea Tree Gully to Campbelltown, and in addition the Hahn Level 4 Murray Bridge to Port Elliot,” O’Grady stated.