Giro d’Italia stage 1 winner Jhonatan Narváez (Ineos Grenadiers) is about to affix Tadej Pogačar at UAE Team Emirates in 2025, in accordance with a number of media reviews.
If confirmed after the switch window opens on August 1st, the 27-year-old Ecuadorian could be a serious enhance to an already highly effective UAE line-up.
A gifted allrounder, Narváez has two stage wins within the Giro d’Italia to his title, in addition to being a gifted one-day racer who has captured each the National Championships twice and the Pan American Games highway title in 2023. He additionally has a hefty variety of prime locations within the Spring Classics.
Beyond that, Narváez has additionally received week-long stage races just like the Tour of Austria and Coppi e Bartali and completed second general within the Tour Down Under early this 12 months.
Thanks to his stage 1 victory, Narváez is presently the one different rider other than Pogačar to put on the maglia rosa within the 2024 Giro d’Italia- one thing that’s wanting more and more more likely to stay the case, given the Slovenian’s stranglehold on the general.
On a hilly opening day’s racing in Turin, Narváez outpaced each Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Pogačar to each take the stage win and maintain the race lead for twenty-four hours.
The 2024 Giro is in his first comeback race after falling badly and struggling a concussion in Gent-Wevelgem earlier this spring.
Narváez additionally got here inside a whisker of a second Giro stage triumph at Naples, the place after a gutsy late breakaway he was caught simply metres from the road by a lowered bunch.
Apart from a single season at QuickStep again in 2018, Narváez’s solely skilled group has been Sky/Ineos Grenadiers. Assuming his extensively revealed transfer to UAE Team Emirates goes forward, he’ll be part of different former prime Ineos riders like Adam Yates and Pavel Sivakov within the Middle Eastern group.
