In many ways, 2025 was the year of the comeback for the men's team at Visma-Lease a Bike – and that, in turn, will inevitably have something both on how they tackle 2026, and how their recruitment strategy for next year can be evaluated.
After a clean sweep of the Grand Tours in 2023, culminating in all three top spots in that year's Vuelta, Visma's failure to claim more than one podium position – with Jonas Vinegaard as a clearly defeated runner-up in the Tour de France – in 2024 was notable. The downward trend could have continued, but instead in 2025 Visma turned the tables again to capture both Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España in a single year. First Simon Yates claimed the overall of a three-week stage race for the first time since 2018 in Italy, then at the end of the summer Jonas Vingegaard did the same in the 2025 Vuelta a España, in his case for his first overall GT win since the Tour de France in 2023. And that wasn't all.
