The Ineos Grenadiers are already one WorldTour win shy of their total from last year and it’s only the first week of May.
It’s not often that the guy on the right is not the one celebrating the win. Um
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Don’t look now, but the soon-to-be Netcompany-Ineos Grenadiers seem to have rediscovered an old pastime. The artists formerly known as Team Sky are actually winning bike races again. A lot of them, and at the WorldTour level, no less.
On Friday at the Tour de Romandie, Dorian Godon stormed to yet another victory in what has been a stellar first few months with his new team. Godon may not have been the Ineos Grenadiers’ offseason signing earning the most fanfare – that honor probably goes to Kévin Vauquelin or Oscar Onley – but he is certainly the team’s most prolific performer in the early goings of 2026, and his hot start to the season got even hotter as he won a reduced sprint to take stage 3 in Romandie.
It was his second win in four days at a race where the other two stages have gone to the best rider in the world. That rider could only acknowledge Godon’s dominance after settling for fourth behind Godon, Finn Fisher-Black, and Valentin Paret-Peintre on stage 3.
“When he kicks with a heavy gear, he’s long gone,” Tadej Pogačar told Cycling Pro Net of Godon’s impressive turn of speed.
The win was Godon’s fifth WorldTour victory of the year, bringing him even with Pogačar’s UAE teammate Isaac del Toro tied for sixth in the WorldTour peloton. The top five is a who’s who of stars who, frankly, get a lot more hype than Godon. The Romandie stage 3 win was also the 12th WorldTour win of the season so far for the Ineos Grenadiers. That number felt pretty high, so we decided to dig a bit deeper.
Believe it or not, the British outfit has in fact racked up more WorldTour victories this season than anyone else other than UAE, and even that super-team has just one more WorldTour win. Ineos is also now just one WorldTour win short of their 2025 total, and it’s only May 1.
In fact, a look at the WorldTour win totals for each top-division team in 2025 and so far in 2026 can actually tell us some interesting things about Ineos and the peloton more generally. Please turn your attention to Figure 1.
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