Alan Hatherly's rainbow leads the Giant Factory Off-Road Team 2025

After a brilliant season, the Giant Factory Off-Road Team 2025 has just been presented with their star signing at the helm. World XCO Champion Alan Hatherly is already sporting his new rainbow jersey to welcome the new year.

Alan Hatherly presents himself at the head of the renewed Giant Factory Off-Road Team 2025

With the aim of tackling the UCI MTB World Cup and other important international races, the Giant Factory Off-Road Team 2025 has just been presented with new key signings, such as current XCO World Champion Alan Hatherly and Canadian talent the Jewett brothers, Jakob and Dane, in DH.

"Last season was the second year in a row that we managed to get on the podium of the World Cup in all disciplines, both in elite and junior categories, with new and veteran athletes alike. We are excited to welcome our new teammates and bring that energy into 2025." said Sebastian Boyington, manager of the Giant Factory Off-Road Team.

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As the current elite men's world champion in XCO and winner of the overall classification of the last XC World Cup, as well as a bronze medalist at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Hatherly leads a powerful XC team that includes Jens Schuermans from Belgium, Dario Lillo from Switzerland, and Carter Woods from Canada.

Schuermans had a great season in 2024 where he managed to get into the top-10 four times in the World Cup, with a podium in the XCC in Val di Sole, Italy. The 31-year-old athlete also represented Belgium at the Paris Olympics, his third participation which he reached after overcoming a hand fracture.

Lillo dominated the men's under-23 category in 2024, achieving three victories and eight podiums to finish fourth in the overall standings. This year, Lillo, who will turn 23 in April, moves up to the elite men's category.

Woods was the Canadian XCO national champion in 2023 and already has victories in the U23 World Cup. Last season he moved up to the elite category but an illness affected much of his season. After recovering, he came back strong in the final part achieving a top-15 in Lake Placid.

The team will compete with the Giant Anthem Advanced 29 full suspension bike on most circuits and all cyclists will also have the rigid XTC Advanced SL 29 model available for fast and less technical circuits.

Hatherly will combine road and mountain biking

As we already knew, Hatherly joins the team as part of an agreement with Giant where he will combine road cycling with the WorldTour team, Team Jayco AlUla. But for the first time, it is confirmed that he will do almost the entire MTB World Cup circuit while gaining road experience with the Australian Team Jayco AlUla.

"I am incredibly excited for this new chapter in my cycling career and very grateful for the opportunity to race for [the owner group of Team Jayco AlUla] GreenEDGE Cycling for the next two seasons," said Hatherly. "Combining road and MTB is something new and refreshing, and I am looking forward to see where this journey can take me."