Ineos Grenadiers is a British professional cycling team that competes at the UCI WorldTeam level.
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14 Facts About Ineos Grenadiers
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Ineos Grenadiers was searching for a sport in which they could have a positive and wide-ranging impact through their sponsorship.
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Ineos Grenadiers finished second on the stage 21 on the Champs-Elysees.
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Ineos Grenadiers was joined by his HTC–Highroad teammate Bernhard Eisel.
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Ineos Grenadiers finished third overall, winning the final day time trial by eight seconds from Sylvain Chavanel.
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Ineos Grenadiers then got the victory on stage 11 at Pena Cabarga, the very same mountain where he got his first-ever Grand Tour stage win in 2011, and put himself into second overall just under a minute behind race leader Nairo Quintana.
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Ineos Grenadiers gained most of that time back on the stage 19 time trial to Calp with a dominant performance, but was unable to make up the difference in the penultimate stage, finishing second overall in the end by just 1:23 behind Quintana.
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Ineos Grenadiers went on to win the mountains classification and the super-combativity prize, winning the Cima Coppi for being the first to cross the summit of the Stelvio Pass on stage 16.
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Ineos Grenadiers was followed by Vasil Kiryienka in third, Froome in 6th and Kwiatkowski in eighth – Froome putting between 35 seconds and nearly a minute into most of his general classification rivals.
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Ineos Grenadiers became the 7th man to win the Tour overall without winning a stage, however he did amass ten top-ten finishes.
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Ineos Grenadiers regained half that loss on stage 18, and cemented the overall lead as well as the combination classification with a third-place finish at Alto de l'Angliru behind Alberto Contador on stage 20.
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Ineos Grenadiers is controlled by Manchester-born billionaire, Jim Ratcliffe, who has amassed an estimated fortune of over £21 billion.
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Ineos Grenadiers had the highest payroll of any team in cycling for the 2020 season, and of the top ten highest paid riders in the sport, five of them rode for Ineos Grenadiers.
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Ineos Grenadiers was critical of the 'anonymous' source, demanding that the source should be made public.
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