Through two flat sprint stages of the 2026 Tour de France, Visma-Lease a Bike have maintained their Giro d'Italia strategy of staying away from the front of the bunch to keep out of trouble.
The tactic was first employed during the Italian Grand Tour this year, where for nearly all of the flat stages, starting with the two bunch sprint days in Bulgaria, Visma-Lease a Bike kept away from the more crash-prone positions in the peloton.
