Visma-Lease a Bike’s MASTERPLAN To DOMINATE In 2024
Even though Jumbo-Visma doesn’t exist anymore, we’ve got the freshly renamed Visma-Lease a Bike, and while their name is different, their goals are the same. They want to repeat the historic 2023 season, not only with some new-look jerseys, but with a wild new masterplan that just got confirmed by the team at their media event, looking to assert their dominance in the upcoming season.
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Even though Jumbo-Visma doesn’t exist anymore, we’ve got the freshly renamed Visma-Lease a Bike, and while their name is different, their goals are the same. They want to repeat the historic 2023 season, not only with some new-look jerseys, but with a wild new masterplan that just got confirmed
By the team at their media event, looking to assert their dominance in the upcoming season. See, Visma-Lease a Bike just sketched out the roadmap, and looking at it even just slightly, it’s obvious what their main quest is. To tend off UAE Team Emirates and Bora-Hansgrohe in
2024 and keep their position in the comfortable throne at the top of the men’s World Tour. The team also presented its women’s continental and man’s development teams for the 2024, but what everyone’s been waiting for was the first look at the new bright yellow Lease a
Bike-branded jersey for the upcoming season. The Dutch crew is very aware that this upcoming year will mark a pivotal season for them. Sure, they did completely rip apart the entire World Tour in 2023, but that’s when they had Primož Roglič, and their long-time
Partner Jumbo in their ranks. Now, both of them are gone, and while a sponsor swap might not affect the peloton directly, the exit of one of the best cyclists in the world could. The Team Director was clear on their goals for next year, saying: “You can expect ambitious goals
From our team. We want to continue creating sports history, and we will do so if we achieve these goals together next year”. Perhaps one of the most expected announcements was that Jonas Vingegaard, the reigning Tour de France champion, will return to the Tour to defend his 2023 title. What came as
A surprise though, is that the team hasn’t yet decided whether they’ll let Sepp Kuss defend his red jersey at the Vuelta or not. It would make sense for Kuss to partner with Vingegaard and defend his Vuelta a España title, but Zeeman stated it’s too early to fully confirm the leader
And their ambitions for the Spanish tour. Regardless though, they made it clear that keeping both of those two in the team is their top priority, awarding both of them long-spanning contract extensions at the event in Amsterdam. Vingegaard signed a contract
That books him in until 2028, and the Eagle of Durango is secured until 2027. With that move, the team made sure Roglič’s departure won’t make them go short of grand tour captains and ensured a bright future. But it wasn’t only the men’s team that holds the potential. The
Multi-discipline ace Fem van Empel also signed an extension with the women’s team through 2027. What’s also important is that the riders love being with Visma-Lease a Bike as well. Kuss openly admitted that the team is like a family and it feels like home, claiming that the excellent
Results they’ve achieved, and his personal victory at the Vuelta as well, are clear proof of that. He also said it’s a good feeling to be able to build on this for the coming years, and that together, they’ll be even more successful. But even though they’re a family, Kuss and Vingegaard
Are clearly positioned at the center of the squad, which showed on their presentation, where they sat alongside the team CEO Richard Plugge and their sport director Merijn Zeeman. But the two champions are far from the only thing Visma have. There’s also the great Wout van Aert,
Who will tread a new path in the next season. He’s set to lead the team through the northern classics and focus on a little something he’s been wanting for quite some time. A cobbled monument title at Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. After that, Wout will enter the Giro d’Italia, where rather
Than going for the GC, he will hunt stages, making it one competitor less for Tadej Pogačar’s Giro dream. He will still be a co-captain though, alongside the sensational sprinter Olav Kooij, who finally got the chance to make his grand tour debut and show what he’s really made of.
Wout said: “It’s exciting to explore the Giro, I hope to win a stage, or maybe more than one. It’s a tough course. It’s a different approach than usual for me, but I’m looking forward to going to the Giro and picking my days.” He’s still aware this is the Giro lite though,
And it seems almost inevitable for him to claim some stages. He also hinted at entering the Vuelta a España as well, but we’ll see what his wild new program for 2024 takes us through. But see, Visma-Lease a Bike isn’t simply relying on their established talent for 2024. They already
Confirmed that their newly signed American talent Matteo Jorgenson will lead the team at Paris-Nice and then move straight to the role of a domestique for the others at both the classics and the Tour de France. And looking at his portfolio of top-tier results in the northern classics,
It’s expected that Matteo will be one of the key wingmen to Van Aert’s northern classics run. There’s one more important thing to mention though. Cian Uijtdebroeks attended Visma’s event, after their high-profile fight with Bora-Hansgrohe, in its efforts to sign the
Young star. And while Uijtdebroeks was presented as a Visma rider for 2024, he was registered as under contract with Bora-Hansgrohe for 2024 on the UCI website, which had fans going wild. However, UCI recently released a statement which says: “The UCI has taken note of the agreement reached
Between Belgian rider Cian Uijtdebroeks, his current team Bora-Hansgrohe and his future team, Visma-Lease a Bike. Having received the documentation relating to the agreement, and in compliance with the rules in force, the UCI confirms that Cian Uijtdebroeks is authorized to join the Dutch team from the coming season.” Therefore, things have been
Sorted out and he’ll be riding for Visma in 2024. In fact, the 20-year-old is set to race his second grand tour at the Giro d’Italia, following his breakout ride at the 2023 Vuelta. Even though the men’s team is what pretty much everyone is talking about, there have also been
Some notable changes at the top of women’s Visma squad as well. Their lead staffers Esra Tromp and Carmen Small both decided to leave the team for the newly formed EF Education-Cannondale team. Therefore, the Dutch rider Reijanne Markus is the one set to lead the team’s ambitions at the Tour
De France Femmes, which is set to start on her home soil in a historic first grand depart. As of right now, there’s no news about Marianne Vos and her return from the surgery on the iliac artery
In her left leg. Only Van Empel, who is currently dominating the CX calendar, spoke briefly at the event, yet declined to reveal any information when asked about her road program for 2024. But while everything might look wonderful, Visma-Lease a Bike’s got one unavoidable
Problem they’ll be facing till the very end of the 2024 season. The pressure to repeat what they’ve done in 2023. The good thing is that the team management is well aware of the problem, and even openly admitted that the pressure will be on their yellow shoulders in 2024.
Jumbo-Visma pretty much swept all three grand tours of the past season and couldn’t be stopped on the marquee stage races either. However, the era they’re facing is going to be different from what they’re used to, especially after Roglič and Jumbo’s exit, which we already talked about.
UAE Team Emirates, by far their biggest competitor, was also active in the transfer marker and managed to further strengthen their roster for 2024, where they’re looking for an all-out push to see their main star, Tadej Pogačar, score what very little have been able to do.
A historic Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double. And then, there’s Bora-Hansgrohe. Roglič’s arrival gives the team a whole new focus, and while it’s crazy to think about it, Roglič gives them such a level-up they just have to be seen as a consistent grand tour contender for the upcoming years.
Even Visma’s sports director Zeeman admitted that the Tour de France showdown we’re about to witness in 2024, between Vingegaard, Pogačar, Roglič and Remco Evenepoel, will test the true strength of their team like never before. In the past two seasons,
It was really only the UAE Team Emirates that were competing with them. But now, there’s suddenly 4 teams in the mix, all wanting to come out yellow. Zeeman also said: “It’s going to be very hard.
Remco is coming up, and we all know what Primož can do. In the end though, in sport all you can do is have your plan as good as possible and prepare as well as possible. We have a fantastic
Group and a fantastic leader, so we are also very confident, but it’s going to be very difficult.” Whether Visma-Lease a Bike can repeat what they’ve been able to do under the Jumbo-Visma name though, remains to be seen, and it’ll be in around 10 months when we’ll know whether it was
Their backer, or their superstar, that did, or did not do it for them.
19 Comments
First !! 😂
Thank you so much for a great voice and the balanced view.
Is this voice AI generated? 😅😅
wait, I thought UAE was top in points 2023?
What a cheap and crappy click bait title
Commentator can’t say names correctly🤣🤣
Remco and his team may join force's with UAE unofficially to dislodge Jonas.To be able to control both could be difficult.
Love this thumbnail lmao, Jonas is a bit of a terminator
SKY had a similar rebrand and lineup change and it had a detrimental effect. Being a top level winning team is a balancing act. Plugge’s actions recently could cause an implosion if not careful.
Richard Plug, Woot van Aert 😂
How will they repeat when Pogi will definitely destroy everyone at the Giro? That alone will mean they won't repeat their success last year.
Let’s go Tadej!!!!!
Woet van eart do not let woet know it XD
Saying visma is expected to repeat last year's success is asinine. No one expects them to take the giro, tour, and vuelta again. Dont be ridiculous.
who narrates these videos? Sounds like one of the historic commentators from GCN/Eurosport but makes mistakes in name pronounciation that he doesn't in the live commentaries. Is this AI generated voice??
Sepp Kuss is the cringiest GC winner ever. They are going to blow their grand tour reign by letting the domestique that made it possible pursue his fantasies
Which team does not want to make history
Kuss confirmed he'll defend his title in the Vuelta
You have forgotten about INEOS Geraint Thomas and Tom pidcock don't write them off Top class in the cycling world 👌