Alexis’ heart beats for racing. This year marks her 12th season as a professional racer and in that time, she has won Drentse Acht van Westerveld and podiumed at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Dwars door Vlaanderen, and Ronde van Drenthe. The American loves the spring classics in particular.

In her first season with EF Education-Oatly, Alexis plans to put her years of experience to work both as a road captain and as a mentor to her teammates. From victories to burnout, injuries to comebacks, Alexis has seen it all and she’s eager to help guide her teammates toward long and healthy careers.

When Alexis is stateside, she’s either playing with her two dogs, snuggling her cat, or taking care of her garden.

At just 20, Alex’s life has already taken unexpected turns. She once thought her life path would focus on engineering and had the opportunity to study it at university. Instead, she decided to follow her dream and become a professional bike racer.

Alex has always been an athlete. She was an avid speed skater growing up in Calgary and found track cycling when she was looking for a summer sport to complement skating. She loved that both sports demanded so much of her, but once she realized that she could train and race on the road and not be stuck on an oval all the time, she was hooked on road racing. Growing up so close to the Rocky Mountains, Alex also took up mountain biking and cyclocross.

As a junior, she was third at the Ronde van Vlaanderen Juniors, won the Canadian junior crit national title, and went back-to-back as the Canadian junior road champion.

In 2025, her first season as a pro, Alex showed her dedication to both her teammates and to her development. She won the bunch sprint at the Canadian road race national championship to finish in second place. When Alex had some time off from racing last summer, she went to Belgium to compete in a series of crits and road races to further hone her skills.

Family bike rides turned into something more dedicated when Babette’s older sister joined a local cycling club as a teenager. Wanting to emulate her sibling, Babette began to take cycling more seriously. The pair often trained together, encouraging each other to grow and improve.

Now in her fourth season as a pro, Babette continues to grow and develop as a rider. Last season she sprinted her way to top five finishes on stages at the Tour of Britain and the Giro d’Italia and was a valuable teammate to help Noemi win the Tour Down Under.

Growing up in the Netherlands, Babette quickly learned to love headwinds and harsh weather. Today, she is happiest racing when the conditions are tough and the day includes cobbles or punchy hills. Naturally, she loves the spring classics.

Babette is currently studying in an online medical science course. She enjoys how studying forces her to take a break from cycling. Another passion of hers is cooking. Babette’s specialty is homemade gnocchi. When you hear Dutch dance music blasting from the team bus ahead of a race, you know it’s Babette’s turn to DJ.

It’s hard to pin Cédrine down. She is from France but often trains in Andorra, though she spends a lot of time traveling around Europe in her van in search of adventure (surfing in Portugal is one of her favorites). She prefers spontaneity to plans. You’re more likely to find Cédrine out on the dance floor than going to bed early. She is a dreamer, but she also takes action.

In her first year on the squad, Cédrine made an undeniable impact. She finished in an impressive eighth place at the Tour de France Femmes. After strategically moving up on the GC in the opening days, an ill-timed crash on the final stage meant the overall podium slipped out of her grasp but Cédrine continued to race with all of her heart right up to the finish line. Cédrine won the French time trial national championship, taking her first elite title. She finished in fourth place at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and on the overall classification at the Vuelta a España, narrowly missing out on the podium in both races.

Cédrine is a natural leader and is equally happy to be the team’s designated leader or to support her teammates. Her confidence and race savvy make her an ideal teammate.

Cédrine is very close with her family and loves to spend time with them. Lucky for her, they started a fan club and often travel around Europe to watch her race. Keep your eyes peeled for a group of fun-loving fans singing and dancing in yellow t-shirts.

When the day comes that Cédrine retires from cycling, look for her tending a flock of sheep somewhere deep in the mountains.

In his first year in EF Education-EasyPost pink, Danish classics star Kasper Asgreen added a Giro d’Italia stage win to his impressive list of victories, which includes the Ronde van Vlaanderen, E3 SaxoBank Classic, and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, as well as a stage at the Tour de France and four Danish time trial titles.

Kasper joined our team because he was impressed with our squad’s attacking style. That’s how Kasper loves to race, too – when the peloton explodes, and he has to make split-second decisions on the fly, pick his moment to go, and then ride with everything he has to the line, he comes into his own. That’s why he loves the spring classics and hard breakaways.

Kasper learned how to race when he was a kid in Denmark, where he started out riding for the local club in Kolding, the small university city where he now lives with his wife and which he will always call home. Before he took up cycling, Kasper rode horses. From the age of four, he competed in dressage. He still draws on his childhood equestrian experience now as a pro bike racer. It taught him discipline: the value of showing up and putting in the work, no matter what.

Bike racing was tough for him at first. Kasper didn’t win a race for his first three years. He loved the sport nonetheless and was soon making fast progress. Now, he is one of the best one-day racers in the world.

Still, Kasper’s love of the sport is what drives him. Being a pro comes with pressures and hard times, but he knows that it is a privilege to be a bike racer. He races better when he is enjoying the sport, and he enjoys the sport most on a winning team.

American powerhouse Luke Lamperti packs a fast sprint and all of the toughness of a seasoned classics racer. Going into his third year in the WorldTour and his first with EF Education-EasyPost, the 23-year-old from Santa Rosa, California, already has six wins to his name, including a stage victory at the Czech Tour. Luke has podiumed in Belgian one-day races like Danilith Nokere Koers and the Bredene Koksijde Classic and dreams of winning monuments.

Luke raced motocross bikes before he switched to pedal power. As a kid, he started cycling to get stronger for dirt bike races and was thrilled by the freedom he discovered exploring his home roads. Luke’s motocross skills, determination, and strength led him to the front of the USA’s most competitive youth races. He was soon competing for one of the top junior teams in the country and traveling to Europe to race with the American national team. Results like his top 10 at Paris-Roubaix Juniors earned him a spot on Trinity Racing, where he rode with future EF Education-EasyPost teammates Ben Healy, Max Walker, and Lukas Nerurkar.

Luke is the kind of rider who can go for results on a wide range of terrain, from hilly, windy spring classics to summer stage races. His favorite races will always be the classics, though. He comes into his own on windswept cobbles and can’t wait to smash it up Belgium’s bergs with our classics squad alongside fellow Americans, Neilson Powless and Colby Simmons.

To achieve his bike racing dreams, Luke knows he needs to focus on the process. With our team, he is confident that he will have all of the support he needs to compete with the very best.

Marijn van den Berg started cycling when he was seven. His dad would take him and his older brother out on the roads near their home, which was just outside the Dutch city of Utrecht. For a while, Marijn wasn’t sure if he had much talent for racing, but he enjoyed getting the most out of himself on the bike. He rose through the ranks, riding for Dutch teams, before moving to France in 2021. That season, he had a breakout year, winning eight races with the juniors, including two stages of the Tour de l’Avenir. He is a strong sprinter who can get to the finish of hard-fought hilly races.

In 2022, his first season in the WorldTour, he earned a number of top-ten places. In 2023, he put to use all that he learned from his rookie season, taking wins at Trofeo Ses Salines–Alcudia and stage wins at the Tour of Poland and La Route d'Occitanie–La Dépêche du Midi. He earned the sprinter's jersey at Région Pays de la Loire Tour and La Route d'Occitanie–La Dépêche du Midi and finished his first grand tour at the Vuelta a España.

In 2024, he won his first WorldTour race, out of a bunch sprint on the fourth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, and won his first stage race, the Région Pays de la Loire Tour, where he also took home the sprinters’ jersey and two stage wins. He raced his first Tour de France and was consistently up there in sprints, duking it out with the fastest riders in the race.

After a powerful early season campaign, crowned with a win at the Trofeo ses Salines and GC podium at the Tour de la Provence, Marijn battled through the first nine stages of the 2025 Tour de France before injuries sustained in an early-race crash forced him to stop. He returned later that summer and sprinted to a number of strong results.

He is determined to make 2026 his best year yet. Marijn’s dream is to win a Tour de France stage. The Dutchman now lives in Monaco and trains in the mountains along the Côte d’Azur.

With three sisters in the peloton and two former elite athletes for parents, Mirre Knaven grew up in an active household. The first sport she was involved in was gymnastics but when her oldest sister decided to swap gymnastics for cycling, then seven-year-old Mirre followed and she hasn’t looked back since.

Though she’s raced mountain bikes and cyclocross, road cycling is what really captured her heart. She still enjoys doing a handful of cyclocross races in the off season just to mix things up, but she is happiest spending her winters escaping the Belgian weather and heading to sunny Mallorca.

Mirre is still developing and discovering her strengths at this early stage in her career. She joined our team mid-way through the 2024 season after earning her first professional victory. The joy she felt that day stemmed from the perseverance and grit she used to take that win. She lives for the classics season when both of her all-time favorite races – Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix – happen. She dreams of winning one (or both!) of these monuments one day.

The passion and dedication that she pours into cycling, she also devotes to music. She’s been a drummer since she was a child, taught herself the piano during Covid, and started playing guitar a couple of years ago. If she weren’t a full-time athlete, Mirre would be a musician.

At just 24 years old, Nina is only getting warmed up. Now in her fourth season as a pro racer, she is a budding classics rider and she loves a hard day of racing in challenging weather conditions. Nina loves to race aggressively and relishes a chance to spend the day in the break.

This is her second year with EF Education-Oatly and Nina has shown time and again that she is a valuable teammate, always ready to take one more pull to help position her team leader and armed with a witty observation to share at the dinner table.

Nina has many fond memories of spending the summer with her family in their camper van as they followed the men’s edition of the Tour de France. That’s where she first got the idea to ride - she wondered how fast she could make it up the same iconic climbs she visited while watching the Tour. Now, it’s Nina’s turn to race up the climbs at the grand tours and inspire the next generation.

Her ideal vacation is anything to keep her outdoors and active. She adores hiking, backpacking, and bikepacking. Nina is currently in her second year of studying for her bachelor’s degree in psychology, so vacation time is admittedly limited these days!

Noah Hobbs is one of the fastest young sprinters in the peloton. Racing for EF Education-Aevolo last season, Noah dashed to a stage win at the Tour de l’Avenir, three stage victories at the Tour de Bretagne, and two stage wins plus the yellow jersey at the Volta ao Alentejo. He is excited to step up to the WorldTour and show his speed in the final kilometers of the biggest races.

Noah competes with British Cycling on the track and is aiming to make the next Olympics. He thinks that the speed that he develops on the boards will help him accelerate even faster in bunch kicks.

His favorite races are the craziest ones, like the classics, which are action packed from start to finish. He always wants them to end in a sprint.

Once the peloton gets to the final kilometers, Noah locks in, making instant decisions, as he jumps from wheel to wheel through the pack, before he sees the finish line and goes with everything that he has.

His dream is to win Tour de France bunch sprints.

Noah lives in Girona during the season but goes back to England whenever he can to chill out and play padel and Xbox with his friends.

Italian powerhouse Vincenzo Albanese stepped up his game in 2025. In his first season in EF Education-EasyPost pink, he sprinted to a huge win on stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse and finished his first Tour de France.

Vincenzo lives in the hills around Florence but is most at home when he is racing over the Belgian cobbles, rattling up bergs and sprinting into corners in the wind. He is a strong asset for us during the spring classics. In 2024, Vincenzo finished in the top ten at 19 races, including the E3 Saxo Classic, Binche-Chimay-Binche, and the Circuit Franco-Belge. Earlier in his career, he won the Trofeo Matteotti and a stage of the Tour du Limousin.

He has been racing since he was six years old and can navigate a peloton like it is his second nature. As a U23, Vincenzo won seven races, including a stage at the Tour de l’Avenir and the Trofeo Matteotti, a professional race he rode with the Italian national team.

That performance earned him his first contract and kick started his racing career. Vincenzo has since developed into a consummate professional. He is a consistent performer who is ready to work for his teammates across all terrain from the start to the end of the season. He has ridden the Giro d’Italia four times and, though he loves his national grand tour, his biggest dream is to win a stage of the Tour de France.

Mikkel Honoré loves to light up races in EF Education-EasyPost pink. The Dane is a very versatile rider. He has the horsepower and skill to shepherd our GC captains through a racing peloton during the hardest grand tour stages. A great climber with a strong finishing kick, who can hold his own on the cobbles, Mikkel has sprinted to stage victories at the Tour of the Basque Country and Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali — two of the hilliest stage races on the calendar. He is consistently at the front of the biggest races and always ready to do his turn for his teammates. We count on Mikkel to be there for us at crucial moments in grand tours and attack the finales of the great one-day races. He’ll go for more victories himself.

Mikkel lives in Switzerland, near the shores of Lake Como. He loves to travel and always has a book with him on the bus. Reading takes him away from the bubble of racing and training. He enjoys philosophy and novels and will always read up on the places where we race to better understand the people who live in the countryside that we pass through.

Mikkel is a great basketball fan. He and his wife will go watch a game together whenever they get the chance. He is also a polyglot and enjoys learning new languages.