"Step by step we are getting back" - Cian Uijtdebroeks reportedly training without pain in positive news for Team Visma | Lease a Bike

Cian Uijtdebroeks has had an awful run of luck over the last year. The main, recurring theme of the Belgian's time at Team Visma | Lease a Bike so far has been a feeling of numbness in his legs, something that until recently has been an issue without any resolutions. Now though, could there finally be some positive news for the 22-year-old Belgian talent?

Having not raced competitively since abandoning the 2025 Tirreno-Adriatico on stage 7 with those all too familiar feelings of dead legs, Uijtdebroeks and Team Visma | Lease a Bike have been searching for a solution to the illusive problem. He was initially planned to race at the Coppi e Bartali, but after he withdrew from that, Visma sports director Maarten Wynants gave a concerning update.

"We are trying to stay calm. In Italy, Cian had a moment of emotion. We are trying to extract that and then look at the symptoms. Then we can make a diagnosis. We have to do it in the right order and only then draw our conclusions. And then act on it,” Wynants told Wielerflits at the time. "Research must show what the results will be, but that work is never for nothing. We are convinced that it will be fine. But how much time that will take depends on the diagnosis."

“I thought I was done with it, but I felt that numb sensation in my legs again,” Uijtdebroeks himself said at Tirreno-Adriatico. “It’s the first time this year that I’ve felt the same symptoms as last season. My heart rate was around 150 — I just couldn’t go… That’s not normal, is it? I have no explanation for it, and there’s not much I can do. It’s just crap. I felt it on the climb, and even now I still feel like I can’t move properly. We’ll have to investigate it with the medical team.”

As mentioned though, there might now finally be some green shoots of positivity for the Belgian and Team Visma | Lease a Bike. According to a report by Het Nieuwsblad, the 22-year-old is back training without pain. The potential fix for the issue? A small adjustment to his saddle position has relieved pressure on a nerve in his back.

"Problems are there to be solved," writes Uijtdebroeks in a post of him back on the bike uploaded to his official Instagram account. "Step by step we are getting back."