Stronger than the others. While it lives financially in the shadow of the big arms of the peloton, the Alpecin – Deceuninck team competes on the road with Visma-Lease a bike and UAE. Already six notable victories, including a beautiful group shot in March: Milan-San Remo on the 16th and the Classic Bruges-La Panne on the 20th with Jasper Philipsen, the E3 Saxo Classic with Mathieu Van der Poel and a stage of the Tour of Catalonia on 22 with the Frenchman Axel Laurance. A great week reminiscent of the start of last season with, already, the Primavera (for “VDP” this time). With a budget estimated at 16 million euros, far from the accounting lines of Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar’s teams, how do they manage to win almost everything?
