Another Red Bull Bora theft from Visma confirmed: Jan Tratnik will ride for the German team!
CyclingMonday, 24 June 2024 at 17:35
The still BORA - hansgrohe team (soon to be joined by Red Bull) continues to make waves at the cycling market.
It has been known for months and now it has been confirmed by market journalist Daniel Benson, Jan Tratnik will ride for the German team for the next 3 seasons thus giving Visma | Lease a Bike the boot. According CiclismoAlDía's Juan Larra, It is tremendous to think that even the strongest teams can suffer 'thefts' in their squads and that is what has just happened to the Dutch team.
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BORA wants to take a step forward in the cycling elite and get closer to the superteams, Visma and UAE Team Emirates, and for that the team's aware it has to reinforce in order to stand a chance in as many races as possible. The landing of the Slovenian, together with the more than likely arrival of the Spaniard Oier Lazkano, and two more Visma riders; the twins Tim and Mick van Dijke would give the German team much more strength in the spring classics.
The 34-year-old Tratnik, is in the best moment of his sporting career as evidenced by his impressive victory this year at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. This year he was also second in Murcia, third in Jaén Paraiso and made the podium in the Volta ao Algarve. At the Giro he could not contribute too much to his team's ambitons due to streak of bad luck, although he came close to victory in stage 10 to Bocca della Selva finishing third.
In total, the Slovenian can count 12 professional victories in his career so far, including 4 Slovenian time trial championships, although it is true that most of his victories are in smaller races like Tour of Slovakia. But he's also won big in his career, taking a Giro stage in 2020, or the most recent victory at Omloop.
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Article written by Juan Larra.
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- First of all, I hope now all is ok with your baby!. Yeah, about to not accept foreign phone number is a big problem also for me. I have economic interests in 2 countries, I think that all can be ok with my Italian number... but NO! The world is globalized but not for bureaucracies.
maria2024202424-11-2024 - First of all, calm, this is a site to share point of views, doubts, intuitions about cycling. Let's think about it: if someone tells you that he is very tired but is going to run unimportant races immediately, ignoring a world championship much further away in time that would give him the opportunity to rest, there is something very contradictory. Maybe it is fair, but as a simple spectator I (and many others) do not understand it, it does not make sense.maria2024202424-11-2024
- I think the other side has said plenty, given comments about her reputation like what Renz said above. Perhaps this is her chance to speak up against that reputation? I have no idea but her comments seem pretty human, even if each person has their own version of the story.RidesHills24-11-2024
- Give her a team built around her with no competing leaders, like Pogacar has at UAE or Vingegaard has at Visma (seeing how Roglic left), and I wonder how Vollering would do. She’s already so good, and a team dedicated to her could make her even better.RidesHills24-11-2024
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- good pointsmij24-11-2024