The longest-serving rider on the roster, Neilands has been with this team through every identity it has worn since 2017 — Israel Cycling Academy, Start-Up Nation, Premier Tech and now NSN. The rangy Latvian is a serial breakaway artist who once attacked the Poggio with Vincenzo Nibali at Milan–San Remo, and he lines up in Barcelona for his sixth Tour de France with a simple brief: get up the road and make chaos.
Palmarès
- Latvian road race champion (2017, 2018)
- Latvian time trial champion (2019)
- Tour de Hongrie overall winner (2019)
- Stage win, Dwars door het Hageland (2018)
- Combativity award, Tour de France stage 10 (2023)
Cut-out factAt the 2018 Milan–San Remo he attacked over the famous Poggio climb alongside Vincenzo Nibali — in only his second season at WorldTour level races.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Biniam Girmay, Lewis Askey, George Bennett, Marco Frigo, Matis Louvel, Jake Stewart, Tom Van Asbroeck — see the full NSN Cycling team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Joost Pauwels, license: CC0.
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