Oscar Rodríguez will experience for Ineos Grenadiers in 2024 after signing a three-year contract with the staff. The Spaniard joins from Movistar, the place he spent the previous two seasons.
Rodríguez is handiest the second one new signing to be showed by way of Ineos Grenadiers for 2024 after neo-professional AJ August.
Ineos additionally introduced contract extensions for Geraint Thomas and Carlos Rodríguez previous this week, however to this point handiest twenty riders had been publicly showed to their 2024 roster. Ben Tulett, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Pavel Sivakov and Dani Martínez have all left Ineos Grenadiers, choosing opponents groups for 2024.
A local of Burlada, Oscar Rodríguez became reliable with Euskadi-Murias in 2017 and he made an early affect when he gained atop L. a. Camperona on the 2018 Vuelta a España. He later positioned 2d total on the 2019 Vuelta a Burgos prior to shifting as much as the WorldTour with Astana in 2020.
2nd total eventually yr’s Excursion de Hongrie was once the prime level of Rodríguez’s two-year stint at Movistar. His 2023 season was once interrupted by way of the crash that pressured him to desert the Giro d’Italia on degree 11.
The 28-year-old joins Ineos to experience in fortify of Thomas, Carlos Rodríguez and Egan Bernal within the prime mountains.
“It’s all the time been a dream of mine to be a part of this staff, one of the most best possible on this planet, and so this can be a beautiful particular feeling,” Rodríguez mentioned on Thursday.
“The mountains are my herbal habitat in order that’s the place I am hoping to give you the maximum fortify to the staff. To experience with guys like Egan and Geraint, who’ve each gained the Excursion de France, shall be an actual honour. I’m having a look ahead to finding out from either one of them, and the usage of their wisdom to lend a hand fortify myself as a rider.”