Professional cycling has made huge strides in becoming a more modern sport over the past 15 years and the XDS Astana team are a prime example of how the simple step of embracing technology can turn a last-placed team into a major player, even without a superstar rider like Tadej Pogačar, Remco Evenepoel or Mathieu van der Poel.
For the last few years, XDS Astana have been one of the teams at risk of relegation from the WorldTour, but they have followed the top teams in incorporating data science into their programmes, hiring data scientist Morgan Saussine to help turn the team's fortunes around.
