As every season, the teams presented many new faces and two of the most interesting ones ended up in the ranks of Team Visma-Lease a Bike by Jonas Vingegaard. One is in Belgium Victor Campenaerts, that of the 33-year-old signed until 2027, and the other is in the British Simon Yates (32 years old), who joined the yellow squad until 2026.
Exactly, it was Bury the Corridor, winner of La Vuelta in 2018 and third in the 2021 Giro d’Italia, referring to the rivalry between its leader, Vingegaard, and Pogacar, who dominated in 2024 at will and endured a depleted Dane after the collapse of Itzulia in Tour de France.
It will not be lost on anyone that Simon Yates’ legs will help Vingegaard immensely in his Tour match against Pogacar. “I am confident that we can end the difference that existed last season between Pogacar and Vingegaard. It is clear that Pogacar’s last year was one of the best in history. He had enormous merit. But if you don’t try to beat in him, you never know if you can. Let’s think about some tactics and see if it works,” said Simon Yates, who could not hide his optimism when in remarks reported by ‘Eurosport’ he pointed out that “we can take control of the race if we really want to.”
As always and as they say, this will be the road that will put everything in its place.
Simon Yates will debut on March 10 at Tyrrhenian Adriaticthen he can join Jonas Vingegaard in Cycling Tour in Cataloniabefore facing his great individual goal of the season, the Giro d’Italiain a season where he would also double in Tour de France.
Source: La Verdad
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