Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert is experiencing a farming year. The recent successes of Bakelants and Thijssen underline this once again. Aike Visbeek (45) has more than a hand in this and has a plan to continue. The Dutch performance manager started professionalization last year and is looking even more ambitiously to the future. He wants to further expand the team with Mike Teunissen and ex-world champion Rui Costa. “We don’t put our entire budget into two or three stars.”