{"id":251712,"date":"2025-07-09T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251712\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:54:11","slug":"almost-done-ineos-grenadiers-could-sign-tour-de-france-revelation-kevin-vauquelin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251712\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Almost done&#8217; &#8211; INEOS Grenadiers could sign Tour de France revelation K\u00e9vin Vauquelin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ark\u00e9a &#8211; B&amp;B Hotels have been for the entire year struggling and most likely the team will come to an end in December. Whilst not impossible, there is a very small chance that the team will save itself and it&#8217;s big revelation K\u00e9vin Vauquelin will depart. Sources at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France<\/a> indicate <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/ineos-grenadiers\" title=\"INEOS Grenadiers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INEOS Grenadiers<\/a> is the likely destination for the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p>What is known is that within the teams interested in Vauquelin is also Team Visma | Lease a Bike, and with certainty there is a big battle undergoing behind the scenes currently to sign the 24-year old. For several years now he has already emerged as a very talented rider, mostly a puncheur but a rider that over the years has developed quite a lot as a climber overall and time-trialist as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Vauquelin is now a two-time runner-up at Fl\u00e8che Wallonne consecutively, and has won races such as the Etoile de Bess\u00e8ges and Region Pays de la Loire Tour this year. At the Tour de Suisse he rode to a second place in the overall classification, spending time in the yellow jersey as well. Whilst not being seen as a Grand Tour specialist, he has started off this Tour in absolute perfection and is currently joining Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel in the virtual podium.<\/p>\n<p>Vauquelin is sitting ahead of Jonas Vingegaard in the GC, having performed strongly in the hilly days, held his own in the front group on the crosswind-affected first stage, and riding a very strong time-trial. Last year Vauquelin made his Tour de France debut and won stage 2 into Bologna; but his current endeavors are perhaps even more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>With no contract for the upcoming season he is one of the most desired riders in the market and according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cirogazzetta\/status\/1943003071333761352\" target=\"_blank\">Gazzetta dello Sport&#8217;s Ciro Scognamiglio<\/a>, his move to INEOS Grenadiers (who recently announced the French TotalEnergies as a new sponsor) can be considered almost a done deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ark\u00e9a &#8211; B&amp;B Hotels have been for the entire year struggling and most likely the team will come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-251712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114825269383295463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}