Visma | Lease a Bike impresses with beautiful thanks to Vingegaard, Van Aert and Pogacar
CyclingTuesday, 23 July 2024 at 15:30
The Dutch team concluded their Tour de France campaign with Jonas Vingegaard on the podium and took ample time through their official channels to thank all the riders from the Tour team. Tadej Pogacar also received a note of thanks.
"For a moment, we feared for your life. You have shown us what a fighter you are. You have made not only us proud but the entire world," reads a message directed at team leader Vingegaard. "You may not have won the Tour de France, but you have won our hearts. You are a true inspiration, showing those who struggle that perseverance always pays off. You can be very proud of this second place."
Wout van Aert, Bart Lemmen, and Matteo Jorgenson were also highlighted. For the Belgian rider, they reflected on his crash in Dwars door Vlaanderen and his recovery leading up to the Tour. "We cried over your tears in the spring. You fell, got up, fought, and kept going. You couldn’t pursue your personal goals in the classics, but you were eager to be part of the Tour team. There you were, as often, serving your teammate. That symbolizes you; you are a superhuman."
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Visma | Lease a Bike pays special attention to Pogacar and Tour performance
Lemmen is praised for his fantastic Tour debut, and Jorgenson for his eighth place in the general classification. And then there are Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel, who receive kind words from their major rival. "Tadej and Remco, thank you for the great battle over the past weeks. You are champions. Sport would be nothing without beautiful rivalries. We tried to beat you and enjoyed the fight. Sport is beautiful when you can admit that someone else is better at this moment. A well-deserved victory for Tadej and a fantastic third place for Remco. We hope to see you back in the 2025 Tour."
That’s also the message directed at the cycling fans. "We may not have won, but we hope we have won your hearts. We fought and finished without regrets. We always want to win, and if we can’t, we will go down fighting. We came to win but knew it would be difficult due to challenges in our preparation. Our perseverance made a difference in the past weeks. We hope you enjoyed it."
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- Wow, there is so much criticism of the UAE XRG riders. Why so much criticism is being leveled solely at the riders is baffling. The UAE XRG management deserves a good amount of the criticism aimed at the team, as a whole. They have not managed the talent they have at all. They failed miserably to properly handle young Isaac del Toro on that penultimate day of the Giro. And they have not handled Juan Ayuso well either. If they didn't have Tadej Pogacar in their roster, we might not be talking about them as winners, at all. So many think that Ayuso has shown that he is not a "team" player at all. Does anybody think that he might be thinking about his own future at this point? That he might want to feel like the team has his back, when they load the pressure onto him? And Joao is not a team leader. That burden might be laid on him by the management, but they need to properly support that assignment, not make it a contentious situation, within the team. And then how management has conducted themselves throughout this parting of ways between themselves and Ayuso has been totally indiscreet. And yet people want to pile onto Ayuso when he tells the truth about the manner that this is all soap opera is developing. He wants out. He shouldn't be getting so much negative criticism for that. It's a situation that has soured. Yes he has a contract, but he is not the first, nor will he be the last that wants to get out of a relationship that just isn't working anymore. And DeCauwer seems to have very vague reasons for criticizing Almeida. He does realize that Jonas is the second best Grand Tour rider of this current generation, so it should be no shame that Joao is behind him in the standings. Riders are giving their all in an extremely difficult sport that stretches them, often beyond their limits. Now many are wanting to send them to Behavioral School as well? The criticism ought to mellow out, or it ought to simply be ignored, as nothing more than blah, blah, blah, not worth the headlines it gets
reemmo002-09-2025 - In 5yrs, Pogi will be a top Twitch streamer living on baked goods while Urska is still racing.Veganpotter11-08-2025
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- Two old men shouting at pigeons in the park…JonS16-06-2025
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- They wouldn't have dropped HIM so easily.... the GOAT. They would have dropped the rest from that era easily thoughVeganpotter16-06-2025
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