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Follow us on GoogleVisma | Lease a Bike can look back on 2025 with a broad smile. In a stats-packed season recap published via the team’s official channels, the Dutch outfit counted 40 wins across the year. Standout results included overall victory for Simon Yates in the Giro d’Italia and Jonas Vingegaard lifting the Vuelta a España. Wout van Aert also received special attention in the round-up.
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That Visma | Lease a Bike couldn’t quite match UAE Emirates-XRG and Tadej Pogačar in 2025 is obvious: the current benchmark team finished on 95 wins, more than double their great rival’s total. Even so, the tone of Visma’s review is upbeat. “A historic year for Team Visma | Lease a Bike", it concludes.
By the time Yates sealed pink in the Giro, Visma | Lease a Bike had already clocked 20 victories. Sprinters Olav Kooij and Matthew Brennan were flying, while Matteo Jorgenson and Jonas Vingegaard took overall wins at Paris–Nice and the Volta ao Algarve respectively—Jorgenson backing up his 2024 triumph.
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Matteo Jorgenson won Paris-Nice for the second year in a row
Special spotlight on Van Aert’s ten Tour stage wins
After those twenty early-season wins—including three at the Giro—Yates handed the team its first Grand Tour GC of the year. The season summary also highlights the team’s runner-up spot at the Tour de France. On the women’s side, the headline was Pauline Ferrand-Prévot winning the Tour de France Femmes, and the year ended with Christophe Laporte taking the overall at the Tour of Holland.
Add in Paris–Roubaix success, plus twelve wins for serial winner Brennan, and the verdict is emphatically positive. With a special mention for Van Aert, who created “one of the most memorable moments of the year” on the Champs-Élysées at the Tour. "An epic solo victory on the famous cobbles after attacking on Montmartre six kilometers from the line to finish off the Tour de France in style."
"That win was one of 13 Grand Tour stage victories claimed by the men’s and women’s teams across the Giro, Tour, and Vuelta, making it a Grand Tour season to remember."
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Bram van der Ploeg (35) is the proud founder of In de Leiderstrui, IDL Pro Cycling's parent site, launched in 2018. Finally, he could create stories about the sport he had followed since childhood. He is the editor-in-chief on paper, but prefers to be with his recorder next to a rider, a team bus, or in the mud at a cyclocross race. Every year, from February to the end of May, Bram follows the entire Italian cycling season, from the Trofeo Laigueglia to the Giro d'Italia, with the grand finale in October in Lombardy. During that time, he lives in Tuscany, where he has since come to call Italy his 'home'.
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- Eight riders told to go for stages, and nobody gets one—hard to know what the plan was there. It’ll be interesting to see whether they pick a clear leader next time.bikebuffj10-11-2026
- Was Bernal’s 20th place really their best GC result? I thought he might have finished higher. Either way, it sounds like a rough Tour for the whole team.gearguru3310-11-2026
- Five days in breaks with no stage win is a painful stat. The team had chances, but they need to turn those opportunities into results.julien10-11-2026
- The Onley Vuelta example makes sense: a team with someone to rally around often looks much more cohesive. Hopefully INEOS can build on that rather than expecting a quick return to the Sky years.cadencekingm10-11-2026
- Thomas is right about the ambiguity. Eight riders all chasing stages can end up pulling in different directions, even if nobody’s deliberately working against anyone. They need a clearer plan once the GC leaders are out.robert6510-11-2026
- What a mess. The report makes it sound as though nobody properly explained the decision, and that’s hard to defend.jennifer1910-11-2026
- I’m still learning the rules: does moving left in a sprint automatically bring a penalty, or does it depend on whether the other rider is blocked? It sounds like Brand wasn’t impeded here.patriciaw10-11-2026
- A final decision still needs a proper explanation. If the federation’s complaint goes nowhere, I hope the officials at least review how they handled the riders afterwards.michael5410-11-2026
- Fair play to Lucinda for saying Marie had won fair and square. That kind of sportsmanship matters, especially after such a controversial decision.raceready710-11-2026
- Schreiber beat Brand on the road, so the jury needed to explain clearly why that slight deviation warranted relegation. Being cut off before she could give her account sounds appalling.lindae10-11-2026
