Historic Jumbo-Visma. Before the Tour begins Barcelona It was already known that the Dutch team was the strongest of all and that they would dominate the race, although what was not expected was their combined five-star team, the American Sepp Kuss, the winner, having Jonas Vingeggarddouble champion ofhe is the Tour de Francealready Primoz Roglicchampion of Italy is spinning this year, triple winner of the Vuelta and was unable to fight for victory in the Spanish round last year as he had to retire early in the race.
A domain of Jumbo-Visma which not only materialized in the Vuelta, but also experienced earlier this year in the Tour de France with the victory of Jonas Vingegaard and in the Giro d’Italia with the victory of Primoz Roglic, although it is in the Vuelta where they have They have been more dominant, which can be seen from the fact that they occupy the first three positions on the final podium and that they also won the team classification, which they did not do in the Tour or in the Giro.
It has been 57 years since a team occupied the first three final positions of the Vuelta, since the team did it in 1966. Kas-School to the success of Francisco Gabicafollowed by Eusebio Velez and of Carlos Echevarria, refreshing formation that dominated the Vuelta with even more authority, as it placed three more riders in the top ten: José Antonio Momene, Valentin Uriona and Antonio Gomezfifth, sixth and seventh respectively.
And among Jumbo-Visma’s three big wins this year was American Sepp Kuss, who was key to Roglic’s victories at the Giro and Vingegaard at the Vuelta, and finished both races inside the top 20, 14th in ‘Corsa Rosa’ and 7th in ‘Big Boucle’. And, like these two great riders, Kuss also won one of the 21 stages at the Vuelta, which javawire, the same yield achieved by Roglic at the Giro, while Vingegaard increased his haul at the Tour to two.
It is not surprising, then, that Jumbo-Visma (which is not the team with the biggest budget, it will be 25 million dollars, compared to 35 million UAE Team Emirates and the 43 of Ineos Grenadiers) condition the performance of other runners in the races they participate in. In fact, at this point in the season it is the team that has accumulated the most victories, 61, compared to 53 of Soudal-Quick Step and the UAE’s 51, the first three most successful formations.
Furthermore, within the team they have the necessary peace of mind to continue doing their thing after knowing that they are about to lose their main sponsors.
Source: La Verdad
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