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EF Education-Nippo become EF Education-EasyPost for 2022 season and have brought on a lot of talent in the transfer season including Mark Padun, Esteban Chaves, James Shaw and a number of other riders that will make for an exciting year.

Michael Valgren and Magnus Cort will be targeting the 2022 Tour de France start in Denmark and Hugh Carthy might want to get a higher result in the Giro d'Italia.

Team Arkéa Samsic have been given all the wildcards to most of the World Tour events for the 2022 season. Nairo Quintana will have general classification ambitions in one of the Grandtours. Equally Connor Swift will look to step up from his Tro Bro Leon victory in 2021 for Monument success as well in 2022.

The 2022 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships will be held on 29 and 30 January 2022 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.

But unfortunately there will be no Wout van Aert or Mathieu van der Poel winning for the first time since 2014 for various reasons so it looks like Tom Pidcock is thrusted into the new favourites role after a superb 2021-2022 season so far which has included 2 World Cup wins and plenty of podiums.

UAE Team Emirates was one of the most exciting teams in 2021 courtesy of a supremely dominant Tadej Pogačar who defended his Tour de France title and also added two monuments to his palmares.

Despite losing Alexander Kristoff in the Transfer Market they have reinforced the team with João Almeida, Pascal Ackermann and Marc Soler to name a few.

But how will this star studded team do in 2022?

The new season is almost upon us and we thought it was time for a fresh set of predictions of the 5 Monuments and 3 Grandtours plus the rainbow jerseys. Maybe João Almeida will be able to win the 2022 Giro d'Italia starting in Budapest or Primož Roglič will win the Yellow jersey ahead of Tadej Pogačar. Or maybe even Wout van Aert will get to wear the rainbow jersey on the road as well?

Our 2021 Predictions video: https://youtu.be/sjINUdwS62w

Primoz Roglic had a bad 2021 Tour de France but will be looking to come back stronger to crack his countryman Tadej Pogacar. Jumbo Visma will no doubt bring a solid team to back-up their star GC asset with Wout van Aert, Sepp Kuss and Jonas Vingegaard likely to be part of it and the 2022 Tour de France Route looks like it could suit Roglic as well.

Wout van Aert began his cyclocross campaign with a bang in the Super-prestige Boom Round but can the Belgian superstar continue this form to take the top step of the cyclocross world once again?

The 2021 WorldTour season saw some amazing individual and team performances, with the likes of Bahrain Victorious firing on all cylinders and UAE Team Emirates becoming less of a one man show.

Ineos Grenadiers had a solid 2021 season with many victories but falling a bit short in the Tour de France with Richard Carapaz taking the 3rd place overall.

However this does not take the shine away from a great season dominating the Giro d'Italia with Egan Bernal. They managed to win the Volta a Catalunya with Adam Yates, Tour de Suisse with Richard Carapaz, Tour du Romandie with Geraint Thomas and the Criterium du Dauphine with Richie Porte.

Tom Pidcock had an incredible neo-pro season almost winning the Amstel Gold Race.

Bahrain Victorious has arguably been the most exciting team of 2021 with stage wins in all three grandtours and Sonny Colbrelli even won Paris Roubaix to cap off the season. Matej Mohorič won stages in the Tour de France and Damiano Caruso surprised by finishing 2nd overall in the Giro d'Italia and winning stage 20 plus a stage in the Vuelta a Espana as well.

Bahrain Victorious managed to win the team classification in both the Tour de France and in La Vuelta plus in the Vuelta Gino Mader finished 5th and Jack Haig 3rd overall.

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