Pavel Sivakov has signed a three-year contract with the team and will join UAE Team Emirates in 2024. He joins the team after spending the first six seasons of his professional career with Ineos Grenadiers.

"I am very excited to be joining UAE Team Emirates next year. After six years with Ineos, it will be a new chapter in my career," Sivakov said when UAE Team Emirates confirmed the news.

"It will certainly be a big change for me, but I am really looking forward to being part of the UAE project. I've seen how the team has developed over the years and I'm happy to be part of it to help win races and to help win races."

Shivakov enjoyed a brilliant amateur career, and in 2017 he was a member of BMC's development team for the After winning the Ronde de l'Isard, Giro della Valle d'Aosta, and the under-23 Giro d'Italia, he turned professional the following year with Team Sky.

Sivakov is the son of former professional riders Alexey Sivakov and Alexandra Kolyaseva. Born in Italy and raised in southwestern France, he changed his nationality from Russia to France after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

He has since won four races as a professional, including overall victories at the 2019 Tour de l'Alps, the 2019 Tour de Pollogne, and the 2022 Vuelta a Burgos.

In the 2019 Giro d'Italia, he finished ninth overall, showing his Grand Tour potential, but has since been plagued by crashes and bad luck in the three weeks of racing.

Sivakov was an important domestique for Ineos Grenadiers in this year's Giro d'Italia, but on stage 11 to Tortona he fell in the same crash as Tao Geoghegan Hart, which compromised his race and forced him to abandon on stage 16. [He moved from Ineos Grenadiers to UAE Team Emirates and hopes to follow in the footsteps of Adam Yates, who is back in 2023. Signed primarily to support Tadej Pogacar, Yates won the Tour de Romandie, finished second in the Criterium du Dauphiné, and third in the Tour de France in his first year with the team.

"We are very happy to welcome Pavel to the team for the next few years," said Mauro Gianetti, manager of UAE Team Emirates.

"He has shown ability as a winner and a worker and we feel he will integrate well into our team. He is still young and has room for progress, but he also has experience at the top level.