John Allert, the CEO of INEOS Grenadiers, left the British WorldTour team one day before the Giro d’Italia, The Athletic can reveal.

The Australian joined INEOS in 2021 in a consultancy role and was promoted to CEO in December 2023, tasked with reviving the fading team’s fortunes after several years of decline.

Between 2012 and 2019, Team Sky and INEOS Grenadiers won seven Tours de France, but the emergence of Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard — who have won every Tour since 2020 — abruptly stopped the British team in its tracks.

In Allert’s first year, he presided over the team’s worst-ever season. They secured just 14 victories in 2024, while rival teams with similar budgets — around €50million per annum — won Grand Tours, Monuments and WorldTour stage races.

Things improved in 2025, with the team winning two stages of the Tour de France and three stages of the Vuelta a España, but the writing appeared to be on the wall for Allert when team founder and former team principal Sir Dave Brailsford returned in 2025.

Brailsford had stepped back from day-to-day management of the cycling team to focus on his role as head of INEOS Sport, which also included a major role at Manchester United when INEOS took a minority ownership but full control of football affairs in February 2024.

This article was published by The Athletic/New York Times in June 2026. You can read the full article here.