Jumbo Visma booked an almost perfect season with professional cycling in the final stage victory and overall victory on the tour of Guangxi on Tuesday.
This final success brought the total number of victories that year to 69. In the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España, three different riders and three riders won the Vuelta a podium and completed the historic Grand Tour Triple.
Sports director Merijn Zeeman said that Olav Kooij "looks back on an unprecedented season
"after Milan Vader took the final stage across the line behind him for a comprehensive victory in China, " adding that "Adding Christophe Laporte's win at the European Championships will have 70 wins," Zeman said. It was a great experience.
"This is the best season this team has ever had. We cycle by winning three grand tours in one year and now, after a week in China, we have reached 70 victories."
"There is no word to explain it. It's an unprecedented season and it's really great. We are always a humble and humble team, but this is definitely a reflection. We are very proud of it."
The Dutch team will have a new name and a new look next year as Visma-Lease A Bike. They opposed the many discussed mergers/acquisitions of Soudal-QuickStep, but we can look back at the dominant 2023 season as the best in their history.
They lost Primo Rogic heading to Bora Hansgrohe, but in 2024 Jonas Vingegaard, who won the Tour de France 2 times, and his super
they managed to bring the Dane's Tour de France victory in 2024 back to Roglic and his team. It aims to protect against things like Lemco Evenepoel (Soudal・QuickStep).
Jumbo-Visma's goals for 2023 included Kooij winning 10 wins, winning the monument and surpassing the UCI team rankings. The young sprinter achieved his goal and won 13 sprints, but the UAE team Emirates topped the rankings and Wout Van Aert, Laporte and Dylan van Baarle failed to win the monument.
They won in 2020 with Wout Van Aert winning over Milan Sanremo and Rogliú taking the Liège-Bastogne-Liège from the small group sprint, but none of the 5 major 1-day races claimed for 3 years.
Van Aalto finished in the top 10 with each of his last 10 monument appearances, 6 of them finished on the podium, but all
Zeeman admitted to Het Nieuwsblad that "It's a gap", but that the team can't win all. I also suggested that.
"Tours in Flanders and Paris-Roubaix in particular have been very high on our wish list. But in top sports, we realize that we cannot simply achieve all the goals we set," says Zeeman.
"We are in a comfortable situation where we have achieved a lot.
Van Aal was also very unlucky to miss, especially at Paris-Roubaix, and the punk of the last cobblestone sector, Carrefour de Louvre, meant he could not fight Van der Poel for victory.
"On a tour of Flanders, we came across Tadej Pogañar, who stood out more than the others. In Roubaix, Wout[Van Aert] was out of luck, so I can't say what had happened if it hadn't happened," Zeeman said.
"After that, we will evaluate this intensively and work on the realization of those dreams in the coming years.”
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