It has been a long way back from a disastrous 2024 for Wout van Aert and his Visma–Lease a Bike team, but now it seems that the 30-year-old Belgian and his mates are back to, or at least close to, their best. And in the…
Some climbs are legendary. Others are just glorified punishment dressed up in Tour de France nostalgia. You don’t ride them for fun. God no. You ride them because your ego, Instagram feed, and Strava KOM ambitions are louder than your common sense.
After spotting his GC rivals up to 3 minutes on stage 1, João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) won the Tour de Suisse after a relentless fightback, winning three of the next seven stages, including Sunday’s decisive final-stage ITT.
For years, Sepp Kuss has been the emblem of Visma–Lease a Bike’s success. When the team, as Jumbo-Visma, won all three Grand Tours in 2023, becoming the first team to accomplish the feat, Kuss – then widely acknowledged as the best mountain domestique in the…
