Simon Yates Looks Forward to Giro and Tour with Visma Lease-a-Bike

Simon Yates is looking forward to the 2025 season with Visma Lease-a-Bike.

Yates is now 32, and says he wants ‘to be the best version of myself, which is possible within this team’. He has moved to the Dutch outfit after spending his whole career to date at the Australian Jayco-Alula team.

Yates’s early season races will include Tirreno-Adriatico and the Volta a Catalunya.

He will then go to the Giro d’Italia.

‘My biggest goal in 2025 will be the Giro. It’s a race I have a lot of memories of – good and bad – so it inspires me to go for it once again’.

He will play the role of domestique for Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France.

‘I want to help Jonas secure another overall victory. It’s exciting to soon be part of the team around someone like Jonas. I am motivated to assist him.

I expect another battle against Tadej Pogacar, a teammate of my twin brother Adam. Both my brother and I will have the same role in support of our leaders, so that will be something to look forward to’.

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Here’s Simon Yates speaking about his new challenge with Visma Lease-a-Bike, and the upcoming cycling season.