Visma‑Lease a Bike are are not collapsing. They are not cutting back. Instead, one of the WorldTour’s most meticulously run organisations is doing something far more calculated: preparing for the next financial escalation in modern cycling.
Last year was a mixed bag of results for Demi Vollering, who was riding in the first year of her two-year contract with the team now called FDJ United–SUEZ. She had a great first half, winning four stage races, including the Vuelta España Femenina, and…
In late 2024, after the devastating injuries to Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert, I speculated, tongue firmly in cheek, that Visma–Lease a Bike may have been hit by a curse after its unprecedented triumph of winning all three Grand Tours in 2023. I was…
There really was never any doubt that Remco Evenepoel would win the five-stage Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, even after the stage 2 ITT was neutralised because of high winds – it was run, but the times were not included in the GC calculation. One…
