CyclingUpToDate Rating 2023 | Jumbo-Visma: 9.94

CyclingUpToDate Rating 2023 | Intermarché-Circus-Wanty: 5.06

Rating - 9.94

Rúben Silva (CyclingUpToDate): 10. Jumbo have done it. I won't dispute a perfect 10 note. Perfection is impossible in cycling but they got as close as one could expect. A very very strong team but all of it's leaders performed and some even overperformed. Per Strand Hagenes and Milan Vader had extraordinary success when comparing to their expectations. Olav Kooij thrived as a sprinter. Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot and Dylan van Baarle won together several high-end one-day races. Wout van Aert sure he did not win huge but he continued to be incredibly consistent and finished high all year long and still flew as a domestique when needed. The team had 69 wins and as Team Sky did it's premium years, it's domestiques were at a very high level and fully dedicated - and then when given the chance, they'd succeed too. This is all secondary however for what was the absolute success of the season. Primoz Roglic won countless stage-races including his maiden Giro d'Italia, and even beat Tadej Pogacar at the Giro dell'Emilia. Jonas Vingegaard won Itzulia, Dauphiné and crushed the Tour de France for a second year in a row. Then they both rode very well at the Vuelta a Espana but both behind Sepp Kuss, who rode all three Grand Tours - playing a key role in all of them - and had an extraordinary and dramatic Vuelta a Espana, creating and succeeding a dream story. Hardly anything could've been realistically better.

Kieran Wood (CyclingUpToDate): 10. As close to a perfect season as any team could imagine, Jumbo-Visma were the dominant force in Grand Tour racing this year with Primoz Roglic, Jonas Vingegaard and Sepp Kuss completing a historic hattrick. Away from Grand Tour racing the success continued. A suffocating display at the Tour of Britain, victories at Tirreno-Adriatico, Gent Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Itzulia Basque Country, the Critérium du Dauphiné… The list goes on and on and on.

Ondřej Zhasil (CyclingUpToDate): 10. What a fairy tale year for Jumbo-Visma has it been. Winning, all grand tours, sweeping the full podium at European Championships, is there anything missing? Perhaps a monument or a rainbow jersey? But let's leave something for the rest too...

Juan Larra (CiclismoAlDia): 10. Despite Wout van Aert's bad season, winning the 3 grand tours by stage in the same year makes them the best riders in the world. They haven't won the most UCI points (UAE has beaten them), they haven't won the Monuments or the World Championships, but in modern cycling, with the competition there is, to be able to win the Giro, Tour and Vuelta with 3 different riders is something extraordinary that deserves recognition.

Jorge Borreguero (CiclismoAlDia): 10. Little to say about the best team of the year. Triumphs in the three Grand Tours with Primoz Roglic in Italy, Jonas Vingegaard in France and Sepp Kuss in Spain (including a podium hat-trick of the three mentioned above). Not much more than a World Tour level team can aspire to.

Victor Gonzalez (CiclismoAlDia): 10. They have won all 3 Grand Tours, reason enough to consider them the best team of the season for me.

Filipe Pereira (CiclismoAtual): 10. About Jumbo-Visma... Wow! Nothing more to say about a team that pretty much had THE perfect season with that monument win being the only thing lacking. 69 wins, 3 GT with 3 different riders. Just amazing, Jumbo is the best team in the World, they are the squad to beat and there is no race that this team can't win.

Carlos Silva (CiclismoAtual): 10. 3 wins on GT´s, what else can a DS wish. A year that will stay in the books of history for decades.

Ivan Silva (CiclismoAtual): 9.5. 3 Grand Tour wins, 38 WT wins including 7 of them on Grand Tours, Full podium at Vuelta a España and the team really dominated the peloton. GC wins also in Guangxi, Dauphine, Tirreno-Adriatico, Basque country and Catalunya. Its not a perfect 10 though because of the Spring campaign where the team failed to win any monument despite the high expectations created.

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