The Rise of Jumbo-Visma: From Ashes to Dominance in the Cycling World

Built on the ashes of the Rabobank formation, which made the pride of the Netherlands before being consumed in financial disputes and doping cases, the Jumbo-Visma team is the fruit of the ambitions of a 53-year-old businessman with an atypical profile, Richard Plugge, who made his creation the best team in the peloton in the space of barely a decade. Three months after having flown over a good part of the Flanders classics season with Wout Van Aert, Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot and Dylan Van Baarle, and a month after winning the Giro thanks to Primoz Roglic, his Yellow and Black are going to the assault of a second Tour de France in a row in the wake of Jonas Vingegaard. Nothing seems able to alter the ambitions of this manager in search of perfection, determined to mark the history of cycling.