‘In cycling, you can just buy success’ – Jonathan Vaughters on financial fairness, super teams and the sponsorship dilemma

Rider contracts in cycling are becoming longer. The best young talents are being snapped up earlier. Just as recently as Wednesday, UAE Team Emirates ensured one of the brightest prospects in the peloton, Jan Christen, wouldn’t be going anywhere until at least 2030. 

He’s the third rider on the Emirati team to sign a contract until the end of the current decade after 18-year-old Pablo Torres and the sport’s current pinnacle, Tadej Pogačar did the same earlier this off-season.