> Lamberts is also at the basis of the rider that the 33-year-old Roglic is today, with four Vuelta’s and a Giro d’Italia to his name. “We made those plans together, when Visma | Lease a Bike wanted to try to win a Grand Tour. Primoz had the potential, a very high VO2-Max. But the aerobic threshold that is so important for classification riders, was not that high. Still higher than Jurgen Van den Broeck (who catapulted Lamberts to third place in the Tour de France in 2010, ed.), but still…”

Jurgen catching strays