Daring to dream: How Jumbo Visma built their Tour challenge
From one of the least successful teams in the race, to winning for fun. Jumbo Visma have turned their team around in the last two years, and done it off the back of the humble time trial. James Shrubsall found out how.
Jumbo-Visma on the podium after winning the team time trial on stage two of the Tour de France 2019 (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)The yellow team became the team in yellow. When Mike Teunissen gurned and wrestled his way to the first victory of this year’s Tour de France, there can’t be many who failed to notice the happy synchronicity between Jumbo-Visma’s in-house colour scheme and the Tour’s maillot jaune. How fortuitous that everything from the riders’ helmets […]
