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Rating every men’s WorldTour team’s 2024 season

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Rating every men’s WorldTour team’s 2024 season

Another cycling season is over, the chapter closed on a historic, record-breaking year for some. For others, it was a time to forget.

It’s more than just the big names though, there was plenty of success for riders not called Tadej Pogačar. We’ve rated every WorldTour team’s season out of 10 taking into account expectations and results (or lack of).

Alpecin-Deceuninck: 10/10

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TL;DR: There was no stopping the dynamic duo of Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen.

Alpecin-Deceuninck have gone from strength to strength with each passing season, largely due to Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen turning the squad into a superteam. With two big winners it could be easy for the formula to turn on its head, but fortunately, for the time being, it has brought nothing but victories.

The power duo rode to a second successive 1-2 at Paris-Roubaix this year, Van der Poel lifting the cobblestone aloft after he pushed aside his own title defence at Milan-San Remo in the service of Philipsen. He did the same at the Tour de France. This ability to switch from leader to domestique with ease is key to the team’s success.

They’re not the only riders that have brought Alpecin-Deceuninck wins this season though. Axel Laurance has impressed, winning the overall at the Tour of Norway, and Kaden Groves picked up three stages at the Vuelta a España.

Best results this season:

  • Milan-San Remo (Jasper Philipsen)
  • Classic Brugge De Panne (Jasper Philipsen)
  • E3 Saxo Classic (Mathieu van der Poel)
  • Ronde van Vlaanderen (Mathieu van der Poel)
  • Paris-Roubaix (Mathieu van der Poel)
  • Stages 10, 13 and 16, Tour de France (Jasper Philipsen)
  • Stages 2, 14 and 17, Vuelta a España (Kaden Groves)

Arkéa-B&B Hotels: 4/10

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TL;DR: Kévin Vauquelin gets biggest win of their season at the Tour de France.

66% of Arkéa-B&B Hotels’ wins this season come from French riders on home roads. That might sound like a lot, but in actuality, it’s actually just six wins. They don’t have a big budget so it’s understandable that they can’t battle for big wins.

The jewel in the crown came from Kévin Vauquelin at the Tour de France. The 23-year-old, making his debut at the race, attacked from the breakaway to win the team’s first stage at a Grand Tour.

Aside from this, it feels like Arkéa-B&B Hotels operate on the ‘cusp’ of the WorldTour, never really getting a number of victories or even a couple of defining ones, which means they’re low in the UCI points standings and could be in danger of relegation when the time comes.

Best results this season:

  • Stage 5, Étoile de Bessèges (Kévin Vauquelin)
  • Stage 4, Tour of Oman (Amaury Capiot)
  • Stage 2, Tour de France (Kévin Vauquelin)
  • Paris-Chauny (Arnaud Démare)

Astana Qazaqstan: 5/10

A.S.O./Charly Lopez
A.S.O./Charly Lopez

TL;DR: One of their least successful seasons still highlighted by the fairytale of Mark Cavendish’s record-breaking victory.

Astana Qazaqstan follow a similar vein to Arkéa-B&B Hotels in that they can’t frequently challenge for impressive, headline-grabbing victories (aside from one we’ll get to shortly). Their 13 victories this season come from 2.1 races like the Tour Colombia or Giro d’Abruzzo, and it’s fewer than 2023.

Mark Cavendish re-signed with Astana Qazaqstan for 2024 with the aim of breaking the Tour de France stage wins record. The team built around him bringing former teammates and coaches back together for one last ride. The gamble paid off and Astana will be forever etched on those pages of the history books.

Best results this season:

  • Giro d’Abruzzo (Alexey Lutsenko)
  • Stage 5, Tour de France (Mark Cavendish)

Bahrain-Victorious: 5/10

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TL;DR: Antonio Tiberi continues to show Grand Tour potential, podium ambitions seem even more realistic.

Most of Bahrain Victorious’s wins this season came from stage races, whether it was Phil Bauhaus at Tirreno-Adriatico, Santiago Buitrago at Paris-Nice or Torstein Træen at the Tour de Suisse.

They didn’t achieve the same Grand Tour stage success as 2023 however, when they won two Giro stages, three at the Tour and one during the Vuelta. It wasn’t without trying from Bauhaus though, the German twice rode onto the podium at the Giro and once at the Tour.

As their GC man, Antonio Tiberi did achieve fifth overall at the Giro with the young rider’s jersey too. Who knows what he could’ve achieved if he wasn’t forced to abandon the Vuelta on Stage 9 while fourth overall. Just keep him away from any cats and he should keep progressing.

Best results this season:

  • Stage 3, Tirreno Adriatico (Phil Bauhaus)
  • Stage 4, Paris Nice (Santiago Buitrago)
  • 5th overall, Giro d’Italia (Antonio Tiberi)
  • Young rider classification, Giro d’Italia (Antonio Tiberi)
  • Stage 4, Tour de Suisse (Torstein Træen)
  • Tour de Luxembourg (Antonio Tiberi)

Cofidis: 2/10

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TL;DR: Win rate needs to increase to avoid relegation.

There’s no shying away from it. 2024 has not been Cofidis’s year. Only two of their wins came at the WorldTour level out of a total six victories. One was at the Giro though, where Benjamin Thomas crossed the line first out of a breakaway quartet that stunned the sprinters. At least it was in style.

Milan Fretin was the only man to double up, victorious at the 4 Jours de Dunkerque and Tour du Poitou-Charentes.

Considering the team averaged 17 victories a year from 2021-2023, they’ll need to get back to this baseline next year.

Best results this season:

  • Stage 5, Giro d’Italia (Benjamin Thomas)
  • Stage 1, 4 Jours de Dunkerque (Milan Fretin)
  • Stage 2, Tour de Suisse (Bryan Coquard)

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale: 9/10

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Dario Belingheri/Getty Images

TL;DR: The team ditched the brown bibs and started winning big in one of their best seasons this century.

It’s easy to immediately start talking about Ben O’Connor, but the truth is every rider on this team played a vital role with 32 victories dished out among them. Those victories included Benoît Cosnefroy topping the standings at the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes and winning Brabantse Pijl, Dorian Godon winning a couple of stages at the Tour de Romandie and Sam Bennett practically sweeping the 4 Jours de Dunkerque.

Their consistency brought them the team classification at the Giro d’Italia, where they also won two stages with Valentin Paret-Peintre and Andrea Vendrame. Then there’s the Vuelta.

O’Connor is now leaving the squad for Jayco-AlUla but gave them a huge departing gift, riding into the leader’s red jersey after a breakaway victory on Stage 6 and holding the lead for two weeks. When he was eventually overtaken by Primož Roglič, he still battled on to finish second overall. And combined with his strong results elsewhere, just off the podium at the Giro and second in the Worlds road race, it’s no wonder he finished fourth on the UCI points standings.

Best results this season:

  • Tour des Alpes-Maritimes (Benoît Cosnefroy)
  • Brabantse Pijl (Benoît Cosnefroy)
  • Stage 10, Giro d’Italia (Valentin Paret-Peintre)
  • Stage 2, 3, 5, 6 and overall, 4 Jours de Dunkerque (Sam Bennett)
  • Stage 19, Giro d’Italia (Andrea Vendrame)
  • Stage 6, Vuelta a Espana (Ben O’Connor)
  • 2nd overall, Vuelta a Espana (Ben O’Connor)

EF Education-EasyPost: 7.5/10

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TL;DR: Their entertaining doesn’t always produce wins, but to not do so would go against the EF Education-EasyPost way.

For all the time they spend attacking at the front of the race, the EF Education-EasyPost team do have some good stage wins this season including Georg Steinhauser at the Giro d’Italia and Richard Carapaz at the Tour de France, but it feels lacking in terms of bigger victories. Perhaps their ever-presence masks that. We’re used to pops of pink at the head of the field that lead to a combativity award here or mountains classification there.

That isn’t to discredit the victories they did have. However out of their 27 wins this year only four stages came at the WorldTour level. Marijn van den Berg at the Volta a Catalunya, Carapaz at the Tour de Romandie, plus Steinhauser and Carapaz’s Giro and Tour stages.

Carapaz has been leading the way for the team with his polka dot jersey at the Tour, lighting up the final week in particular to sweep up points. They have an entertaining style of racing but will want to grab a couple more wins at the highest level next year.

Best results this season:

  • Milano-Torino (Alberto Bettiol)
  • Stage 4, Volta Catalunya (Marijn van den Berg)
  • Stage 1, 4 and overall, Région Pays de la Loire Tour (Marijn van den Berg)
  • Région Pays de la Loire Tour (Marijn van den Berg)
  • Stage 17, Giro d’Italia (Georg Steinhauser)
  • Stage 5, Tour of Slovenia (Ben Healy)
  • Stage 17, Tour de France (Richard Carapaz)
  • Mountains classification, Tour de France (Richard Carapaz)
  • Overall combativity award, Tour de France (Richard Carapaz)

Groupama-FDJ: 5/10

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TL;DR: Middle of the road earns a middle rating.

It was a dream scenario for Stefan Küng, who finally got his maiden Grand Tour victory this year on the final stage of the Vuelta. He dominated the 24.6km time-trial to win by over half a minute ahead of Roglič.

Groupama-FDJ also had brilliant performances from Laurence Pithie in the Classics. 15th places at Milan-San Remo and the Classic Brugge De Panne do not a victory make, but it set the scene for a brilliant seventh (with a crash) on the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix.

In terms of the team’s season as a whole, they were fighting for some wins here and there but they’re a pretty middle of the road WorldTour team whose most success stems from 1.1 races on home roads. It’s okay, but could be better.

Best results this season:

  • Cadel Evans Road Race (Laurence Pithie)
  • Stage 5, Itzulia Basque Country (Romain Grégoire)
  • Stage 5, Tour de Wallonie (Sam Watson)
  • Stage 21, Vuelta a Espana (Stefan Küng)
  • Stage 5, Tour de Luxembourg (David Gaudu)
  • Chrono des Nations (Stefan Küng)

Ineos Grenadiers: 5.5/10

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Luc Claessen/Getty Images

TL;DR: A team almost unrecognisable from previous years.

A few big wins did little to ease the fact this continues to feel like a team in freefall, a far cry from their heyday of Tour de France strangleholds. Even in the past few seasons, Ineos Grenadiers have seen an abundance of wins, 46 in 2022 and 40 in 2023, but 2024 was different.

Their win total plummeted to 16, road captains retired and rumours spread over the future of Olympic gold medallist Tom Pidcock. Such disappointment has also seen ‘structure and staff changes’ drawn up by performance director Dr. Scott Drawer.

It’s not all bad, however. Pidcock won Amstel Gold Race and both Jhonatan Narváez and Filippo Ganna picked up stages at the Giro d’Italia. Narváez was the only rider to wear the maglia rosa not named Tadej Pogačar after his impressive opening stage sprint.

At just 23 years of age, Carlos Rodríguez has been a star rider in stage races for Ineos Grenadiers, second at Itzulia Basque Country and first at the Tour de Romandie. He didn’t start the Tour well but gradually climbed the standings, finishing seventh overall before adding a top ten at the Vuelta afterwards.

Best results this season:

  • Amstel Gold Race (Tom Pidcock)
  • Tour de Romandie (Carlos Rodríguez)
  • Stage 1, Giro d’Italia (Jhonatan Narváez)
  • Stage 14, Giro d’Italia (Filippo Ganna)
  • Stage 8, Critérium du Dauphiné (Carlos Rodríguez)

Intermarché-Wanty: 7/10

A.S.O./Charly Lopez
A.S.O./Charly Lopez

TL;DR: Biniam Girmay writes his name into the history books once again.

It was an historic Tour de France for Intermarché-Wanty with Biniam Girmay, who won three stages and took home the not-so-green jersey.

The team immediately offered him a contract extension until 2028, so the successful pairing looks set to continue for many years.

Aside from Girmay, Intermarché operate on a similar level as Groupama-FDJ. They don’t have a large number of WorldTour wins, the only other one coming from Louis Meintjes at Itzulia Basque Country, but on the flipside, they do have more than Ineos Grenadiers this season.

They’re comfortable and consistent, and importantly didn’t have any major dips in results for 2024.

Best results this season:

  • Stage 1, Volta ao Algarve (Gerben Thijssen)
  • Le Samyn (Laurenz Rex)
  • Stage 1 and overall, ZLM Tour (Rune Herregodts)
  • Stage 3, 8 and 12, Tour de France (Biniam Girmay)

Lidl-Trek: 7/10

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TL;DR: Grand Tour ambitions took a hit this season but Jonathan Milan picked up the slack

In terms of big goals this season, just how many did Lidl-Trek hit? The team had ‘high ambition’ for the Spring Classics yet ultimately won just one race in Gent-Wevelgem. They also aimed for success all three Grand Tours starting with Guilio Ciccone at the Giro d’Italia but were forced to adjust after the Italian needed surgery leading up to the race. Jonathan Milan shouldered responsibilities instead and sprinted to victory in three stages. He also ended up dominating the points classification.

Mads Pedersen took to the start line of the Tour de France looking for a stage victory but abandoned after a crash. Initial leader Tao Geoghegan Hart was forced to withdraw after fracturing a rib at the Dauphiné and contracting Covid. The team didn’t take a single stage at the Tour or at the Vuelta.

They still won plenty though. Pedersen and Milan notched up 14 and 11 victories respectively. Pedersen ran riot at the Tour de La Provence, winning all but one stage and the overall, then surged to victory against Van der Poel at Gent-Wevelgem. He shared the spoils with Milan at the Deutschland Tour and topped the general classification. Thibau Nys secured the overall at the Tour de Hongrie and won three stages at the Tour de Pologne.

It’s not that the team didn’t win. They just didn’t hit their key aims and missed out on stages at both the Tour and Vuelta. Sometimes that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.

Best results this season:

  • Stage 1, 2, 3 and overall, Tour de la Provence (Mads Pedersen)
  • Stage 4 and 7, Tirreno Adriatico (Jonathan Milan)
  • Gent-Wevelgem (Mads Pedersen)
  • Stage 4, 11, 13, Giro d’Italia (Jonathan Milan)
  • Stage 1, 3 and 6, Tour de Pologne (Thibau Nys)
  • Prologue, Stage 1, Stage 3, Deutschland Tour (Jonathan Milan)
  • Stage 2, 4 and overall, Deutschland Tour (Mads Pedersen)

Movistar: 4/10

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TL;DR: Some big names were nowhere to be found this season.

This wasn’t Movistar’s year with just eight victories, only one of which came at a WorldTour level with Pelayo Sánchez’s stage win at the Giro d’Italia. Einer Rubio fared well during the race overall though, finishing seventh. They did score a Vuelta podium too thanks to Enric Mas but otherwise the season has felt lacking.

A bunch of new faces joined the team for 2024 including Remi Cavagna, Davide Formolo and Lorenzo Milesi but even the return of Nairo Quintana couldn’t prompt any immediate success. Fernando Gaviria is also not packing the same punch as before either, he was only able to claim one win in 2024.

Best results this season:

  • Stage 5, Volta Catalunya (William Barta)
  • Stage 1, Tour Colombia (Fernando Gaviria)
  • Stage 6, Giro d’Italia (Pelayo Sánchez)
  • Stage 4, Belgium Tour (Alex Araburu)

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe: 8/10

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TL;DR: A Vuelta victory ticked off one ambition for the team, but the Tour continues to elude Primož Roglič.

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe aimed for Grand Tour success this year. Co-leadership between Lennard Kämna and Dani Martínez at the Giro d’Italia was on the cards but the German was seriously injured after being hit by a driver while training in April. With full focus on Martínez, the 28-year-old raced to second overall as best of the rest, almost 10 minutes down on Tadej Pogačar.

This was Primož Roglič’s first season with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe and the pair wanted the maillot jaune with Roglič backed up by superdomestiques Jai Hindley and Aleksandr Vlasov. The signs looked promising after he won the Critérium du Dauphiné, but the Tour is one that continues to evade Roglič despite the change of scenery. He abandoned due to injuries sustained in the crash on Stage 12.

In true Roglič fashion though, he picked himself up and won his fourth Vuelta, seeing off a strong if unexpected challenge from O’Connor to secure another maillot rojo by 2min 36sec.

One out of three isn’t bad, but they want more. Roglič and the team’s ‘shared dream’ of winning the Tour didn’t go to plan. Will it be theirs next year?

Best results this season:

  • Stage 1, 3 and 4, Tour Down Under (Sam Welsford)
  • Stage 2 and 4, Volta ao Algarve (Dani Martínez)
  • Stage 6, 7 and overall, Critérium du Dauphiné (Primož Roglič)
  • Stage 4, 8, 19 and overall, Vuelta a España (Primož Roglič)

Soudal Quick-Step: 8/10

A.S.O./Charly Lopez
A.S.O./Charly Lopez

TL;DR: Remco Evenepoel and Tim Merlier hoover up victories like there’s no tomorrow.

Remco Evenepoel and Tim Merlier took centre stage for Soudal-QuickStep and did not disappoint. European Road Race Champion Merlier accounted for over 40% of the total team victories this year thanks to his sprinting prowess at the AlUla Tour, UAE Tour, Nokere Koerse and Scheldeprijs. He also won three stages at the Giro d’Italia.

The team targeted the Tour de France with Evenepoel and the 24-year-old made it onto the podium on his debut, giving him a good foundation to work on in the future. They know what he’s capable of – a Vuelta victory from 2022 already in the bag – now, like with Roglič, it’s having the ability to overhaul Pogačar and Vingegaard.

One lasting memory from this season is their questionable tactics at the Vuelta though, when they called back Mattia Cattaneo from a potential stage victory to help a struggling Mikel Landa – who was a hefty ten minutes down the road at the time.

They did have wins outside of the two leaders though with Paul Magnier and Mauri Vansevenant also notching up a few wins helping the team to third overall in the UCI team standings.

Best results this season:

  • Stage 4 and overall, Volta ao Algarve (Remco Evenepoel)
  • Stage 1, 4 and 6, UAE Tour (Tim Merlier)
  • Scheldeprijs (Tim Merlier)
  • Stage 3, 18 and 21, Giro d’Italia (Tim Merlier)
  • Stage 12, Giro d’Italia (Julian Alaphilippe)
  • Stage 1, 4 and 5, Tour of Britain (Paul Magnier)

Team DSM-Firmenich-PostNL: 6.5/10

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A.S.O./Billy Ceusters

TL;DR: The future looks bright.

The immediate result that springs to mind when thinking back on DSM-Firmenich-PostNL’s year was the brilliant 1-2 they scored on the opening stage of the Tour de France. Romain Bardet, in his final participation of his home Grand Tour, led a 23-year-old Frank van den Broek over the line for the first maillot jaune of the Tour.

In terms of their goals, they planned to ride the Vuelta focussed on ‘general development’ and that they did with Max Poole, who thrice finished third on stages, his best result of second coming just eight seconds behind the much-celebrated Pablo Castrillo on Stage 12. Poole was one of the revelations of the race.

Fellow Brit Oscar Onley also enjoyed a solid 2024, victorious on the famed Willunga Hill on the Queen Stage of the Tour Down Under, a stage race he would finish second overall at much like he did later in the season at the Tour of Britain.

The team would’ve expected more from Fabio Jakobsen though, who was only able to grab one win this season at the Tour of Türkiye. He abandoned both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in what was a year to forget.

Best results this season:

  • Stage 5, Tour Down Under (Oscar Onley)
  • Stage 4, 5 and 7, Tour of Türkiye (Tobias Lund Andresen)
  • Stage 6 and overall, Tour of Turkiye (Frank van den Broek)
  • Stage 1, Tour de France (Romain Bardet)
  • Stage 5, Vuelta a España (Pavel Bittner)
  • Tour de Langkawi (Max Poole)

Team Jayco-AlUla: 5/10

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TL;DR: A team that got lost in the peloton save for Eddie Dunbar at the Vuelta.

It’s been a passable season for Jayco-AlUla. Notching 28 victories isn’t a feat to be scoffed at, largely thanks to Dylan Groenewegen, and yet it feels as though the team is still underachieving. They went to the Giro d’Italia with ‘multiple cards’ to play including Caleb Ewan, Eddie Dunbar and Luke Plapp but ultimately left the race without a single stage win.

Taking Groenewegen to the Tour de France gave one win on Stage 6 as GC efforts with an illness-hit Simon Yates remained on the back burner, managing just 12th overall. The Vuelta was their best Grand Tour with Dunbar their saving grace, the Irishman riding to two stage impressive victories.

Best results this season:

  • Stage 5 and overall, AlUla Tour (Simon Yates)
  • Ronde van Limburg (Dylan Groenewegen)
  • Stage 6, Tour de France (Dylan Groenewegen)
  • Stage 11 and 20, Vuelta a España (Eddie Dunbar)

Team Visma-Lease a Bike: 8/10

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TL;DR: While not matching the dizzying Grand Tour heights of 2023, the team managed stages aplenty despite key names hit with injury.

It would be hard to achieve the same stranglehold as 2023, in which they won all three Grand Tours in the same season. Visma-Lease a Bike aimed for success in the Classics including the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. Jan Tratnik won big at Omloop het Nieuwsblad and Wout van Aert took victory at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, but their ambitions took a big dent as Van Aert ended his Classics season prematurely following a crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen.

As for the Giro, they were meant to be looking for stage wins with Van Aert but his injuries meant he had to pull out. Thankfully Olav Kooij came up with the goods in his absence, sprinting to victory on Stage 9. Then came the main event: a hotly anticipated showdown between Vingegaard and Pogačar after the Dane’s early season horror crash at Itzulia. The Tour lived up to its billing in the first couple of weeks, particularly an entertaining sprint from the pair in which Vingegaard unexpectedly prevailed.

Eventually hopping Evenepoel in the general standings, the damage was done on Stage 14 and 15. Pogačar managed to eke out a gap on the Pla d’Adet then, the following day, Vingegaard was pushed down to over three minutes on the Plateau de Beille. At the end of the three weeks, he sat second overall by 6min 17sec.

There would also be no repeat of ‘GC Kuss’ at the Vuelta. Things were looking good for Van Aert though, who won three stages and held both the mountains and points classifications in his return to form. In an unfortunate theme for him this season however, he crashed on Stage 16 and withdrew from the race.

Visma-Lease a Bike still had a victorious season elsewhere, Vingegaard won Tirreno-Adriatico and Matteo Jorgenson took the overall at Paris-Nice. But it was the Grand Tours where they shone last season, and not winning a single one this year was a disappointment.

Best results this season:

  • Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Jan Tratnik)
  • Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne (Wout van Aert)
  • O Gran Camiño (Jonas Vingegaard)
  • Stage 5, 6 and overall, Tirreno-Adriatico (Jonas Vingegaard)
  • Paris-Nice (Matteo Jorgenson)
  • Dwars door Vlaanderen (Matteo Jorgenson)
  • Stage 9, Giro d’Italia (Olav Kooij)
  • Stage 11, Tour de France (Jonas Vingegaard)
  • Stage 3, 7 and 10, Vuelta a Espana (Wout van Aert)

UAE Team Emirates: 10/10

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A.S.O./Charly Lopez

TL;DR: Spearheaded by Tadej Pogačar, the UAE Emirates squad amassed an outstanding number of wins, including the famous ‘Triple Crown’ during an almost record-breaking year.

It’s an astounding figure, but UAE Team Emirates raked up over 80 victories this year, coming just shy of the single-season record still held by Team Columbia-HTC (85). Such a commanding display of power has meant UAE Team Emirates was a suffocating force at races like the Volta a Catalunya and the Tour de Suisse, and that’s before we get to the Grand Tours.

We all know by now that Pogačar won the Giro d’Italia on his debut, doing so with relative ease against limited competition. Vingegaard tried to push him at the Tour de France, but the Slovenian became the first man since Marco Pantani in 1998 to complete the Giro-Tour double. There was simply no stopping this locomotive, going on to grasp the rainbow jersey at the World Championships and completing his season with much fanfare after victory at Il Lombardia.

It’s not just Pogačar though. That’s what makes this superteam so difficult to beat throughout the year. They’re stacked with talent in the likes of Adam Yates, João Almeida, Marc Hirschi and first year pro Isaac del Toro. As such, they topped the UCI World Team Ranking and head into the offseason feeling pretty damn proud of themselves.

Will they repeat such dominance next season? Can Visma-Lease a Bike bounce back? Only time will tell.

Best results this season:

  • Strade Bianche (Tadej Pogačar)
  • Stage 2, 3, 6, 7 and overall, Volta Catalunya (Tadej Pogačar)
  • Itzulia Basque Country (Juan Ayuso)
  • Liège-Bastogne-Liège (Tadej Pogačar)
  • Stage 2, 7, 8, 15, 16, 20 and overall, Giro d’Italia (Tadej Pogačar)
  • Stage 5, 7 and overall, Tour de Suisse (Adam Yates)
  • Stage 4, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21 and overall, Tour de France (Tadej Pogačar)
  • Stage 1, Vuelta a Espana (Brandon McNulty)
  • Stage 9, Vuelta a Espana (Adam Yates)
  • Stage 16, Vuelta a Espana (Marc Soler)
  • Il Lombardia (Tadej Pogačar)

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