{"id":7446,"date":"2025-01-22T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2025-01-22T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:28:18","slug":"simon-yates-looks-forward-to-giro-and-tour-with-visma-lease-a-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/2025\/01\/22\/simon-yates-looks-forward-to-giro-and-tour-with-visma-lease-a-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Yates Looks Forward to Giro and Tour with Visma Lease-a-Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color:#D06060\">Simon Yates Looks Forward to Giro and Tour with Visma Lease-a-Bike<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-01-22T13:26:09+00:00\">22 January 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/simon-yates-visma-600.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Yates in Visma Lease-a-Bike colours\" class=\"wp-image-7448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/simon-yates-visma-600.jpg 468w, https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/simon-yates-visma-600-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Simon Yates in Visma Lease-a-Bike colours<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamvismaleaseabike.com\/interview\/news\/yates-eagerly-anticipates-new-chapter-in-colours-of-team-visma-lease-a-bike\/\">Simon Yates is looking forward to the 2025 season with Visma Lease-a-Bike<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yates is now 32, and says he wants &#8216;to be the best version of myself, which is possible within this team&#8217;. He has moved to the Dutch outfit after spending his whole career to date at the Australian Jayco-Alula team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yates&#8217;s early season races will include Tirreno-Adriatico and the Volta a Catalunya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will then go to the Giro d&#8217;Italia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8216;My biggest goal in 2025 will be the Giro. It&#8217;s a race I have a lot of memories of &#8211; good and bad &#8211; so it inspires me to go for it once again&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He will play the role of domestique for Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8216;I want to help Jonas secure another overall victory. It&#8217;s exciting to soon be part of the team around someone like Jonas. I am motivated to assist him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Simon Yates speaking about his new challenge with Visma Lease-a-Bike, and the upcoming cycling season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simon Yates: &#039;I want to be the best version of myself&#039;\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uKBvyUUY2so?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;to be the best version of myself, which is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7452,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions\/7452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}