The way the 2025 season started was, to put it mildly, far from ideal for Caleb Ewan but then – as his long-time agent Jason Bakker put it – the ‘planets aligned’. Ineos Grenadiers didn’t have a sprinter and this sprinter didn’t have a home.
There are still plenty of questions about what happened to lead to that situation. But neither former team Jayco-AlUla – where a hopeful Ewan originally signed with for two years from the start of 2024 – nor Signature Sport director Bakker would comment on the specifics.
The outcome, however, has been that the Australian rider who all of a sudden disappeared from the Australian team's website will be stepping out in the black and red kit of Ineos Grenadiers this season instead.
