EF have really maximized their returns with their depleted roster. Would have never guessed they would have tallied as many nice wins as they have this year after the abomination that was their classics campaign.
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He's the real deal. Can compete in grueling, nasty gravel races and also win super-fast, sketchy criteriums. He seems happy doing what he's doing!Logan Owen has quietly reached his best form yet after a mediocre WT career so far. I once had quite high expectations for him when he won a stage at Tour of Utah at the age of 20.
I would think this year's schedule worked very well for him so no reason not to go for something similar next year.Will be interesting what the team and he will decide on for his schedule next year.
I hope Cort will stay at EF - if they can keep a few strong guys it'd be great!
I am both very excited and a bit skeptical to this.Vaughters implies signing of Odd Eiking on twitter
Still 0 confirmed transfers apart from Chaves, despite many riders being already signed for weeks.
I've heard the plan is to announce them next year. They'll do transfer reveals at the same time as they'll be announcing rosters for particualr races.
In the afternoon actually. They'll confirm the transfers in that way "have you seen Ben Healy in the pink jersey today in Paris-Nice? Yes, we've signed him for 2022".So... on the morning of the races in question?
Well, my prediction hasn't aged well.
From Vuelta red to EF pink, Eiking to join the team - EF Pro Cycling
EF Education-NIPPO are proud to announce that Odd Christian Eiking will pull on our jersey in 2022. Eiking has been racing professionally since 2016 and recently came to prominence at this year’s Vuelta a España where he wore the leader’s red jersey for seven stages. “It’s not something I ever...www.efprocycling.com
Odd!
He seems like an EF type of rider, meaning opportunistic and versatile.
Not so long ago an EF (basically Cannondale at the time) type of rider was the opposite of versatile. All of those one-dimensional climbers like Cardoso, Dombrowski, Rolland who had 0 explosiveness, sprint, TT or downhill skills, their classics leader was Vanmarcke who could never win anything because he was only good on cobbles but lacked both the sprint and the ability to sustain a solo effort and even Uran forgot how to TT for a while!He seems like an EF type of rider, meaning opportunistic and versatile.
Not so long ago an EF (basically Cannondale at the time) type of rider was the opposite of versatile. All of those one-dimensional climbers like Cardoso, Dombrowski, Rolland who had 0 explosiveness, sprint, TT or downhill skills, their classics leader was Vanmarcke who could never win anything because he was only good on cobbles but lacked both the sprint and the ability to sustain a solo effort and even Uran forgot how to TT for a while!
Those were some frustrating times even though EF really had the numbers in some of the big races, they could never win anything due to these one-dimensional riders.
August: one transfer announcement
September: one transfer announcement so far
Expect the next one in October and the following one in November.