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Team Jayco-AlUla

The Aussie outfit - now known as Team Jayco AlUla - has gone by many different names over the years, but none have stuck as much as the name they launched with back in 2012, Orica GreenEDGE.

Acting as a de-facto Australian national team, they couldn’t have had a better start in the pro peloton as Simon Gerrans won the national road race in the team’s first race, before following it up with a Tour Down Under title and a Monument win at the 2012 Milano-San Remo. The emergence of the Yates twins, Simon and Adam, gave the team a more Grand Tour-oriented focus in recent years.

Despite Adam leaving the team in 2021, Simon has continued to pose a threat at three-week races and, during his time at the Aussie outfit, has bagged them an overall title at the Vuelta a España, a podium finish at the Giro d’Italia, and 10 stage wins across all three Grand Tours. The team has also tasted success in the sprints, with fastmen Michael Matthews and Dylan Groenewegen both adding to the team’s healthy 2023 win tally.

For 2024 the team have continued to benefit from the sponsorship of Saudi Arabian holiday resort AlUla. The investment of their title sponsors has allowed Jayco AlUla to sign considerable talent for 2024, headlined by the pairing of Caleb Ewan and Luke Plapp.

Signed from Lotto Dstny and Ineos Grenadiers, respectively. Ewan will be hoping to regain his crown as one of the best sprinters in the world, whilst Plapp will look to further his development. There is a suspicion that the three-time Australian national champion could be the country's next big GC hopeful.

Elsewhere, the team strengthened with the arrivals of Max Walscheid, Mauro Schmid, Anders Foldager and Davide De Pretto, earning them the top spot in GCNs.

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