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Cycling – Market: The war Visma-Lease A Bike / Team UAE!
Posted on June 18, 2024 at 6:14 pm
While the big teams embarked on a veritable arms race ahead of the Tour de France, after the United Arab Emirates team initially fielded four riders capable of winning, an extension did not take long to make itself felt in the transfer window. Thus, Visma-Lease A Bike, would be about to sign a new major world leader…
When the Tour de France approaches, the army deployed by the UAE team has something to impress, since around Tadej Pogacarthe team fields three other great leaders capable of winning a Grand Tour, viz João Almeida, Adam Yates And Juan Ayusonot to mention two other very solid climbers, capable of playing a Top 5 or Top 10, ie Mark Soler And Pavel Sivakov. This XXL selection didn’t take long to provoke a reaction from the other big teams, who were also looking to build big armies.
An arms race between the big teams ahead of the Tour de France
Here Bora-Hansgrohe could therefore align Alexander Vlasov And Jay Hindleythe former winner of the Giro, at the service of Primoz Roglicwhile Visma-Lease A Bike has Sepp Kuss And Matteo Jorgenson around Jonah VIngegaard. Following this logic, we also better understand why Remco Evenepoelwhich has only Mikel Landa as a great runner at his side, he tried to bring Julian Alaphilippe to strengthen his team.
Simon Yates joins Visma-Lease A Bike
Logically, this arms race on the Tour de France finds extensions in the transfer window. Here Visma-Lease A Bike He would therefore be on the point of recruiting a new great leader to consolidate the workforce around him Jonah Vingaardwhere we already find three riders capable of playing for victory in a Grand Tour with Sepp Kusswinner of the Vuelta last year, Matteo Jorgensonwhich just finished in second place in Dauphiné-Libéré and Cian Uijtdebroeks, one of the great Belgian hopes. Indeed, according to the revelation of the Flemish media Het Laatste Nieuwsthere Visma-Lease A Bike I would have to sign Simon Yatesthe twin brother ofAdam Yatesat the end of the contract with the Jayco AlUla. Simon Yateswinner of the Vuelta in 2018 also finished 3rd in the Giro in 2021 and 4th in the Tour de France in 2023. The Dutch team’s answer to the army of U.A.E so it didn’t take long to come…
