The Israel team wants the Izagirre with Chris Froome

Confirmed the signing of Chris Froome for next season, the team Israel Start-Up Nation tries to make a good block to surround the British in his assault on what would be his fifth Tour de France, if he does not succeed this year even in the ranks of the Ineos. If he does, the challenge would be even greater: go for the sixth. But for that, the managers of the Israeli team know that they must strengthen the team and they are already probing the World Tour squad. Gipuzkoa Ion and Gorka Izagirre are among the priorities who manages the future team of Froome, like the leitzarra Mikel Nieve.

The Ormaiztegi’s brothers end contract with Astana at the end of the year and they have had the habit of changing airs every two campaigns. In addition, the financial problems that the Kazakh formation recognized in the first quarter of the year – with defaults to its brokers – are known, when the global health crisis and the future solvency of the structure, as that of many others in the platoon, had not yet emerged. , is uncertain. The irruption in the World Tour of the Israel Start-Up Nation with the strong bid for Froome – to whom he has offered five million euros – denotes that the project has a solid economic support.

The Izagirre are also appealing for a team that wants to grow in the best world squad from a double point of view. They are self-sacrificing and faithful cyclists when working for a leader, something they can do in the mountains and also in difficult situations for a leader of lines of tension or wind. But its quality also leads them to achieve interesting results for any training when they enjoy a certain freedom. Ion has in his honors stages of the Tour and the Giro, as well as the general of Itzulia and the Tour of Poland. Gorka also knows what it is to win in the Giro and has flirted with the final victory in Paris Nice. This level has led them to always be well priced in the market.

Although the bulk of the season has not yet been contested, July is already a month in cycling in which the market begins to move and, according to the cyclingnews portal, Israel Start-Up Nation has cast its nets on the Ormaiztegi brothers, both to be luxury gregarious and to try to achieve results where Chris Froome does not compete or does not perform at the expected level. The co-owner of the Israeli group, the billionaire Rod Baron, has pointed out that “the only thing I can say is that great cyclists want to come to our team and that we are talking to some of the best”. The Izagirre among them.