{"id":50888,"date":"2025-11-17T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=50888"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:05:23","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%a7%e2%9c%8d%ef%b8%8fbritish-climber-finlay-pickering-to-join-team-jayco-alula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%a7%e2%9c%8d%ef%b8%8fbritish-climber-finlay-pickering-to-join-team-jayco-alula\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\u270d\ufe0fBritish climber Finlay Pickering to join Team Jayco AlUla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Team Jayco AlUla<\/strong> is excited to announce the signing of young climber <strong>Finlay Pickering<\/strong> on a two-year contract, seeing him on the Australian squad through 2027.<br>\u00a0<br>At 22, the British rider has already spent two seasons racing and developing at WorldTour level and has shown that he is a rider with plenty of promise.<br>\u00a0<br>Pickering is a former junior national time trial champion and won the overall classification at the 2022 Tour Alsace. This season saw Pickering claim victory in the mountains classification at the Tour of the Alps, and following a surprise last-minute call-up, he made a strong Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.<br>\u00a0<br>The <strong>GreenEDGE Cycling<\/strong> management believe that Pickering is a talented climber, and with the support of the Team Jayco AlUla staff, can develop further as a rider.<br>\u00a0<br><strong><u>Finlay Pickering<\/u><\/strong><br><em>\u201cI really look forward to riding with new teammates and working with well-respected staff. I am also very excited to swing my leg over a Giant again! I\u2019ve learned a lot about being in the WorldTour over the last two years, and now moving to Team Jayco AlUla, I can hopefully develop into being an even better\u00a0bike\u00a0rider.\u201d<\/em><br>\u00a0<br><strong><u>Gene Bates \u2013 Team Jayco AlUla Sporting Manager<\/u><\/strong><br><em>\u201cWe have been following Finlay\u2019s progression as a rider keenly, and it is fantastic to have him joining the team next season. In his two years at WorldTour level, he has already shown himself to be a very promising climber. His performance at the Tour of the Alps showed his strengths in the mountains and we believe he can fit in well with our climbing group, where he can provide valuable support to the team\u2019s leaders as well as developing himself as a rider.\u201d<\/em><br>\u00a0<br>Finlay Pickering<br>Age: 22<br>Nationality: British<br>New rider: 2026 &amp; 2027<br>\u00a0<br>Key Results<br>1<sup>st<\/sup> Tour of the Alps, mountains classification (2025)<br>1<sup>st<\/sup> Alpes Is\u00e8re Tour, mountains classification (2023)<br>1<sup>st<\/sup> Tour Alsace, overall classification (2022)<br>1<sup>st<\/sup> Tour Alsace, stage 3 (2022)<br>1<sup>st<\/sup> Junior British time trial champion (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Jayco AlUla is excited to announce the signing of young climber Finlay Pickering on a two-year contract, seeing him on the Australian squad through 2027.\u00a0At 22, the British&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50891,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50888\/revisions\/50891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}