UAE Team Emirates prepare for 2024 and Pogacar's Giro-Tour double in Spain

Tim Wellens and Tadej Pogačar with their new 2024 colours
Tim Wellens and Tadej Pogačar with their new 2024 colours (Image credit: Pissei)

The UAE Team Emirates squad for the 2024 season are gathered with management and staff in La Nucia near Benidorm in Spain, for their first major training camp before the new season. 

The training camp began on December 9th and runs until December 20th, with riders making the most of the warm winter weather for a key block of training and also formalising their race programmes and other details before the racing begins in Australia at the Santos Tour Down Under.

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.