The Israel team disappears from the internet and signals Froome's farewell at the end of 2025

Israel-Premier Tech continues dismantling its current identity and has taken another step in the rebranding process that we announced weeks ago. The team has completely closed its website and all its official social media accounts. The digital disappearance comes after months of tension, protests, and external pressures that have precipitated a profound transformation of the project (previous context).

Israel-Premier Tech disappears from the web amid rebranding process and confirms Froome's departure

The move comes just before announcing its new name for 2026, a decision forced by the protests that marked the Tour de France and, more recently, the Vuelta a España, where several stages were altered or neutralized. The team also withdrew from a significant part of the final season calendar and acknowledged that it could not continue under its current identity.

Recently, Premier Tech confirmed that it is leaving the project for 2026, breaking a relationship that had sustained the team in recent years, and previously, Factor informed the management that it would not continue associated with the team unless there was a change of name and visual identity.

Both moves have accelerated a reconstruction process that, according to internal sources, is practically closed and will be official in the coming weeks.

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Before disappearing from the internet, the structure published a final message on Instagram thanking the staff whose contracts are ending and bidding farewell to the riders who will not continue in 2026. Among them, there is a name that marks a final point in the recent history of cycling: Chris Froome.

The 40-year-old Briton thus concludes his time at Israel-Premier Tech and is left without a team, which leaves his retirement practically assumed although not confirmed. His time with Sylvan Adams' formation, which he joined in 2021 after his serious fall in the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2019, never found competitive continuity. Since then, he has not won again and has only achieved one notable podium, third place in Alpe d’Huez during the 2022 Tour de France.

His last appearance in competition was at the Vuelta a Polonia, where he finished 68th, before suffering a new accident while training near his home in Monaco that caused him spinal fractures, rib fractures, and a collapsed lung. Doubts about his continuity have increased since then.

As we explained in previous news, the ownership of the team, with Sylvan Adams stepping back from daily management, is working on a new identity that includes a name change (Cycling Academy), image, and public position to distance itself from the Israeli identity that has marked recent years. The disappearance of all digital presence seems to be the final phase before showing its new structure for 2026.