Visma–Lease a Bike

Perhaps as the years have gone by, he's realising that he's not going to win the Tour and he's being more pragmatic and maybe has certainty that you are going to be a domestique, but you might get your own opportunities.

Maybe that's more appealing and... yeah Visma clearly know how to orchestrate their riders and get the most out of their super domestiques so it wouldn't surprise me if they went to Visma at all really because yeah they bring in like you know they've got a bit of a wacky transfer policy at the moment it seems with bringing in Jakobsson and kind of slightly what seem like odd picks on the surface but they're working is the thing that they're making signings and they are kind of working out so Yeah, maybe Bernal is a bit of a...

They like to seemingly bring in an

older rider

and transform them.

Feel like they can rejuvenate them.

So yeah, Bernal to Visma.

It would work

But clearly a talent.

We've mentioned a bit of his accolades, world championship medalist, He signed with Visma as a 17 or 18 year old.

It's funny to talk about the career of somebody who is so young, but when you look at his career, what he's done in cycling, what comes to mind?

What comes to mind? I would say his pathway has been, he was really fortunate to have growing up in Toronto with the velodrome here through COVID, and that's when he really got into cycling.

I mean, even you look at it, I think...

Five years ago, it was Visma and FDJ.

They were pumping out Riders like no tomorrow.

Yeah.

Exactly.

But you've turned nine guys professional, so it's worth it from that side.

I mean, I'm sure Visma, FTJ, DSM, they all look at their Devo teams and go- These are highly successful.

And they still are.

Then we had the first rest day.

Tronchon won a sprint where Visma swaps it around and so Groupama, we started to have quite some nice winners in...

We had Coquard winning his first ever Grand Tour stage.

FDJ winning their first maybe World Tour race of the year.

Fair

... of the race.

They could have tried to do something differently against a, a kind of pretty thin Visma lead out by the end of the race.

But anyway, uh, they do miss a top sprinter actually, Uno X.

Um, it's still operating, uh, uh, as, uh, one of the most important development teams in, in the world.

Um, and yeah, moved towards, uh, Jumbo-Visma, uh, at the time, Visma Lease a Bike right now.

Um, set up the women's team there, um, with Marianne Vos, for example.

By the way, on that, uh, development team, uh, we had Demi Vollering and Lorena Wiebes, uh, I think pretty familiar right now in the, in the sport.

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... to, to fifth, like, that was unreal by Visma.

It was unreal that Carapaz is attacking 100K to go as if he's sprinting for the finish line.

Like, his launch is that hard, and then, um, we always expect Roglic not to have legs on that final day, and he limited his losses pretty well to hold onto second, which is Superb after getting hit by a car leading into the race.