Tour de France review: Jumbo-Visma, at last Following a series of chaotic near misses, a murky past, and a 15-year-long road to redemption, the Dutch super team has finally conquered the Tour de France cycling TDF2022
Just under a minute after Jasper Philipsen crossed the line on the Champs-Élysées, securing his second victory of the 2022 Tour de France and the first of his young career on that hallowed sprinting ground, Jumbo-Visma’s remaining riders came into view, riding together arm-in-arm in the fading sunlight of the Parisian evening.
While the late-blooming Slovenian’s relatively stress-free domination of the Vuelta a España and most week-long stage races since then has certainly hinted at the potential for ruthless domination, until this summer Jumbo-Visma’s modus operandi on the biggest stage has seemed to be focused on snatching cruel defeat from the jaws of victory.
By the end of the Tour’s first week, the writing was on the wall. Pogačar was, as ever, the dominant force, stamping his authority on every stage he could and bending the race to his will; a race, in GC terms anyway, that had seemed to pass Jumbo-Visma by.Then the Alps happened – and everything we assumed about the trajectory of cycling over the next decade changed, changed utterly.
While Pogačar continued to dazzle for the rest of the race, and even picked up a hard-fought consolation stage at Peyragudes to add to his two wins earlier in the race, the boy-king finally proved he was human.Jumbo-Visma, meanwhile, were mercilessly infallible.
But just hours after his dominant solo win on the Col d’Aubisque, the Chicken was sent packing, his team having come under increasing pressure for much of the previous week following reports that Rasmussen had lied about his whereabouts to avoid doping tests during the build-up to the Tour. In 2012, Plugge was keen to start afresh after years of doping scandals, an approach epitomised by the team’s ‘Blanco’ moniker while in between sponsorship deals. “We started as Blanco to give cycling back to the fans,” the 52-year-oldHowever, traces of the old Rabobank era still remain. One of the team’s directors, Grischa Niermann, rode for Rabobank between 1999 and 2012, and in 2013 confessed to using EPO during his career.
“I can say that to every one of you. No one of us is taking anything illegal. I think why we’re so good is the preparation that we do.
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