Mastermind of Pogacar's Tour de France victories Allan Peiper returns to UAE Team Emirates

Allan Peiper
Allan Peiper (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)

Experienced sports director Allan Peiper returns this season to UAE Team Emirates in the newly created position of ‘team analyst’.

Along with other team staff, as a sports director Peiper is widely credited with playing an important role behind the scenes in Tadej Pogačar’s 2020 and 2021 victories in the Tour de France.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.