{"id":52450,"date":"2026-05-12T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/?p=52450"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:12:39","slug":"paul-double-signs-new-deal-with-team-jayco-alula-through-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/paul-double-signs-new-deal-with-team-jayco-alula-through-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Double signs new deal with Team Jayco AlUla through 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>British talent\u00a0<strong>Paul Double<\/strong>\u00a0has put pen to paper inking a new deal with\u00a0<strong>Team Jayco AlUla\u00a0<\/strong>to extend his contract with the Australian squad through 2028.<br>\u00a0<br>With offers from other teams, Double has entrusted Team Jayco AlUla with his future, and team management believe there is still a lot of potential to uncover from the climber that only made his debut in the WorldTour peloton in January 2025.<br>\u00a0<br>The 29-year-old enjoyed a breakthrough season last year, where he picked up two impressive general classification victory plus two stage wins along the way at the Tour of Slovakia and the Tour of Guangxi, the latter of which was his first professional WorldTour victory.<br>\u00a0<br>With a debut three-week Grand Tour under his belt and the taste for victory, the gutsy rider is only just getting started despite his age. The squad are thrilled to have the opportunity to assist Double in his development and hunt for success over next two seasons.<br>\u00a0<br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Paul Double:<\/span><\/strong><br><em>\u201cI am delighted to be staying with the team for the next two years. It was an awesome debut year for me last year taking my first professional victories and I have felt so supported with Team Jayco AlUla. I have had a bit of a difficult period recently, but the team has always continued to believe in me and that is so important for my development. I am proud to ride for this team, it suits me so well and I cannot wait to see what we can achieve together in 2027 and 2028.\u201d<\/em><br>\u00a0<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Gene Bates \u2013 Sporting Manager<\/strong>:<\/span><br><em>\u201cWe are really excited to extend with Paul; he has demonstrated his class and ability last year with a couple of great wins and taking a WorldTour overall victory in Guangxi was a really big step for him. It is great to be able extend his contract for two more years, this gives him\u00a0support and confidence to keep making good progress. We have learnt a lot about Paul as a rider, and I think he has too. We know where his strengths lie and we believe he can achieve a lot. We are looking forward to applying this knowledge to help get the best performances we can out of him.\u201d<\/em><br>\u00a0<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Paul Double<\/span><br>29 years old<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key results:<\/span><br>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Overall &#8211; Tour of Guangxi \u2013 2025<br>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Stage 5 &#8211; Tour of Guangxi &#8211; 2025<br>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Overall &#8211; Tour of Slovakia \u2013 2025<br>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Stage 5 &#8211; Tour of Slovakia \u2013 2025<br>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Stage 2 \u2013 Coppi I Bartali \u2013 2025<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/che01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jayco.com.au%2F%3Fmc_cid%3Df1fd3431e6%26mc_eid%3DUNIQID&amp;data=05%7C02%7Clucy.martin%40greenedgecycling.com%7Cbc0138b9985148d2940d08deb01ada5b%7C200067618dcd4599b58376b61bd4ca3b%7C0%7C0%7C639141826569729679%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=XbwSyorSEI%2Fp9GCEPAOFY%2BeZUIaFfL3hYYNHe1gYwfs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British talent\u00a0Paul Double\u00a0has put pen to paper inking a new deal with\u00a0Team Jayco AlUla\u00a0to extend his contract with the Australian squad through 2028.\u00a0With offers from other teams, Double has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52453,"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\/52450"}],"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=52450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52452,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52450\/revisions\/52452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}