Having just gone through what was, in the most politest terms, a PR incident in having to effectively have crisis talks with riders to decide which one of them was allowed to win a Grand Tour, you would have thought the last thing Jumbo-Visma wanted to do was to create more controversy that might remove... Continue Reading →
Putting the Jumbo-Visma Grand Tour Sweep into context
Jumbo Visma's clean sweep of the 2023 Vuelta podium has had people questioning just how dominant they are, as you'd rightly do after they were able to effectively able to choose the winner of the race, and maag. Surely they must have broken loads of records in becoming the first team to win all three... Continue Reading →
Who had gotten closest to the Giro-Tour-Vuelta sweep?
Now that GC Kuss has delivered, Jumbo-Visma has achieved what hasn't been done in the 73 years it has been possible (remember the Vuelta is considerably younger than the other Grand Tours, and had more breaks than the other races) and won the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in the same... Continue Reading →
Grand Tour Podium Sweeps – Not as uncommon as you might think…
If the Jumbo Visma Trident of Primoz Roglic, Jonas Vingegaard and Sepp Kuss all end up on the final podium of the Vuelta a Espana on Sunday evening, it will be the first time anyone born after May 1966 will have been alive for such a feat. For this - 57 years ago - was... Continue Reading →
At what literal stage can you be comfortable you’ve won a Grand Tour?
Sepp Kuss eh? Whilst many of us probably had strong convictions that Jumbo-Visma would become the first time to complete the the Grand Tour clean sweep in a calendar year, we likely didn't have the 61kg American down to complete the trilogy over his multiple Grand Tour-winning teammates, Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic. Obviously, he... Continue Reading →