The Jumbo-Visma team did not win for fear, losing another sponsor

Another failure for the team Jumbo-Visma. If the development of Jumbo supermarket chain of the Dutch formation on December 31, not only in cycling but in all the sports and athletes it promoted, among them pFormula 1 driver Max Verstappennow the company has happened gorillas he also got off the orange ship.

Apparently, according to ‘WielerFlits’, Gorillas, the German ultra-fast food delivery company, which appeared on the sleeve of the jerseys, has stopped paying the agreed upon team and left a gap of around five million euros. Despite this, in the statement of the team it was reported that despite this incident they will not withdraw the name of Gorillas from the jerseys.

After the new recession, from the orange formation they are calling for calm and making sure that they are talking to big companies and multinationals from Netherlands and, in the worst case, that this agreement be delayed, vima and Cervélothe brand of bikes they use, has said that they are willing to work hard and stay with the team pending the infusion of additional capital.

Jumbo-Visma is one of the main cycling teams in the peloton, licensed by the World Team of men and women, which from 1996 to 2012 was sponsored by rabobank and it has some of the best cyclists in the peloton in its ranks, such as the Danish Jonas Vingegaardleader of the Dauphiné Critérium that takes place and winner of the last edition of the Tour de France, Roglic is a cousinrecent winner of the Giro d’Italia or three-time winner of La Vuelta or wout van aerttriple cyclocross world champion, and a great classicsman, with victories in Strade Bianche, Milan-San Remo, Ghent-Wevelgem or the Amstel Gold Race.