After enjoying a dream season to remember forever in 2023, Visma–Lease a Bike suffered a year to forget immediately in 2024. The spring crashes of the team’s superstars, Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert, have been amply documented. But van Aert’s final crash, on stage…
Crashes are part of cycling, and have always been, but especially in the past few years, as the racing got much faster and much more competitive, with riders often going at full speed right from the start of a race or stage.
I don’t believe in curses, spells or voodoo, but what has happened to Visma–Lease a Bike’s star riders this year cannot be explained any other way. The latest misfortune struck the team’s superlative all-rounder Wout van Aert just when he seemed to complete a magnificent…
Wout van Aert’s participation in the Vuelta a España came to an unexpected end after a severe crash on a damp descent during stage 16. Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), who had been a dominant presence in the race, lost control on a moist, left-hand…