In arguably the biggest test to the general classification of the 2024
Tour de Romandie so far, the best any of
Team Visma | Lease a Bike's riders could manage was 28th, 59.86 seconds down through
Koen Bouwman on the stage 3, individual time-trial.
"In terms of results, we might have expected a bit more, but the men did their best. Certainly Koen,
Johannes Staune-Mittet and
Jan Tratnik rode the time trial properly," explained team manager
Grischa Niermann in conversation with Team Visma | Lease a Bike's official website post-stage. "A time trial is always fair and this is where we are at the moment. Yesterday we saw that we were not competing with the very best and today it was the same again. That is not a bad thing because we are here to prepare for the Giro."