It is one of cycling’s great modern mysteries and recurring conversations: how committed is Sir Jim Ratcliffe to Ineos Grenadiers? And how long will the British team continue being one of the sport’s richest teams, if indeed it continues at all?
When the British billionaire – the richest man in the UK until 2022 – replaced Sky as the WorldTour team’s title sponsor in the spring of 2019, he did so promising much of the same as before: regular and dominant Grand Tour success.
