Visma | Lease a Bike have already won 8 Grand Tours during this decade, cementing themselves as the one of the two major GC forces of the current cycling world (the other being Tadej Pogacar with 5). However their record at the Monuments leaves something to be desired as the Slovenian alone has won 10 while Visma as a collective have celebrated only twice, and both triumphs date all the way back to 2020. But Sepp Kuss believes 2026 to be the year of change.In 2020, Wout Van Aert won the Milano-Sanremo before Primoz Roglic took one of the most viral victories ever at the Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Since then, it was mainly the Belgian who carried Visma’s flag in Monuments, and he did so formidably with further 6 podium finishes (2x Sanremo and Roubaix, 1x Liege and Flanders), but ultimately always fell short to either Mathieu van der Poel or Tadej Pogacar.This year, Van Aert should again return to chase that elusive cobbled Monument triumph, but he won’t be alone. Visma seem to have found a potential successor to the 31-year-old in a decade younger Matthew Brennan who leapfrogged into the position of one of the Dutch team’s main stars already in his debut season when he won a total of 14 races.
