Derek Gee-West

But we were a bit of a mismatched team and then we moved into trying to focus on sprinters and we signed Pascal Ackerman and guys like that.

And then over the course of like 2023 into 2024, we obviously had Derek Gee who was starting to show some real promise as a GC rider so that we started to look at that direction more and, okay, how are we going to – How are we going to develop a good GC team and what are we going to do to build a team around Derek and other young, good, talented GC riders that we had coming through the ranks? So we started to head a little bit more in that direction.

Then obviously we lost Derek halfway through last season when he left the team.

So we were kind of back to square one a little bit with no... no real direction.

Canada's chances dealt a huge blow.

Derek Gee West of Ottawa, who could have been up there for a good top ten, crashed out, hurt his ribs, and their best shot is maybe Michael Woods.

He technically retired last year.

He came back for this, so he could essentially just have a send-off to help Gee West up those climbs on Mont Royal.

They got Juan Ayuso.

They got Derek Gee.

They got...

Scalmosa.

And somebody who I would say...

So, you know, I, I wrote a story about the Gall stuff ear, uh, earlier this week, and I would say of those riders on that team, the, of the stable of GC guys, you got Derek Gee-West, you've got Skjelmose, you've got Ayuso, and now you've got Felix Gall.

Uh, wait, and-

And also Tao Geoghegan Hart probably gonna leave the team.

So we've got a transfer on our hands, and it's ironic because I think we've spoken about this before Goll had the perfect year in terms of opportunities.

Yes, Paul Sixhas gets the Tour de France, but Felix Goll got leadership in both the, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta, and I look at Trek and I think to myself, Mads Pedersen, Jonathan Milan, Juan Ayuso, Martial Skjelmose, Derek Gee, and I'm probably still missing-

Ciccone

... one or two riders.

Yeah.

Derek Gee's a pretty good GC rider.

Derek Gee.

Yeah, Derek Gee.

Yeah

I mean, really good time trialist, really good in the third week.