Whereas the Jumbo-Visma males’s workforce is wrapped up within the turmoil surrounding a possible merger with Soudal-Quickstep, the arrival of Amazon as a substitute sponsor for Jumbo and the upcoming departure of Primož Roglič, the ladies’s workforce are constructing and seeking to be extra rightly affiliated with the lads’s squad.
In a press launch this week, the Dutch workforce introduced the arrival of Lieke Nooijen from Parkhotel Valkenburg. Quickly-to-be retired Jos van Emden joins as a brand new ladies’s workforce sports activities director together with Jan Boven, who has been working with Jumbo-Visma’s growth workforce. Present sports activities director Carmen Small and coaches Lieselot Decroix and Marieke van Wanroij will go away, with Maarten van Kooij coming in as efficiency coach alongside present technical supervisor Rutger Tijssen.
“We wish to create extra cohesion and cross-fertilisation between the totally different groups of Group Jumbo-Visma,” Tijssen stated
Workers coming from the lads’s WorldTour and Growth groups into the Girls’s workforce, sports activities director Merijn Zeeman says, fills the “lacking hyperlink” in integrating the ladies’s workforce into the bigger organisation.
“We’re constructing with our ladies’s workforce. It has gone by ups and downs in recent times. By making a extra express hyperlink between the ladies’s and males’s groups in all areas, we count on to see additional growth within the coming years,” Zeeman stated. “I’m delighted now we have introduced collectively expertise, expertise and a willingness to study on this teaching workforce. I’m due to this fact assured that our ladies’s workforce will change into more and more dominant.”
The ladies’s workforce has seen a mass departure with six riders leaving, three to the brand new EF Training-Cannondale workforce, Coryn Labecki, Kim Cadzow and Noemi Rüegg. They’ve introduced in Mijntje Geurts from Lotto Dstny and Margaux Vigie from Lifeplus Wahoo along with Nooijen for 2024.
“I feel now we have a well-balanced workforce for 2024, the place we will take advantage of the talents of every rider, together with the skilled leaders,” Tijssen stated. “Everybody has their qualities and will be capable to develop and attain their full potential within the coming years.
“With Marianne (Vos), Riejanne (Markus) and Anna (Henderson), now we have three good leaders. The opposite riders are much less skilled, however all of them are very proficient. The workforce we’ll begin with in 2024 has change into stronger throughout the board, regardless of the departure of Karlijn Swinkels, Noemi Ruëgg, Coryn Labecki, Teuntje Beekhuis and Kim Cadzow.”
Tijssen intends for the workforce to deal with growing riders by individualising their programmes.
“There should at all times be progress throughout the group. On all fronts, each bodily and mentally. This development begins with the person however serves the workforce’s curiosity.
“Profitable is vital to us … we’re an bold high sports activities workforce. However we additionally know that it’s important to construct on success. Nearly 30% of our riders are youthful than 23. We consider them as growth riders and wish to give them the possibility to develop at their very own tempo into robust athletes who can finally compete on the highest degree. A top-ten end in an vital race may also be a ‘win’ for these riders.”