{"id":111312,"date":"2025-09-03T10:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111312\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:55:12","slug":"team-visma-lease-a-bike-kielich-strengthens-team-visma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111312\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Visma | Lease a Bike | Kielich Strengthens Team Visma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe will take on a similar role with us,\u201d says Head of Racing Grischa Niermann. \u201cTimo is a valuable addition to our spring classics squad to support our leaders. Every year, we deal with changes in the team, that\u2019snormal. With Timo\u2019s arrival, we\u2019re anticipating the departure of certain riders from our classics squad. In addition, he will have opportunities in other races to go for his own results. We also believe he can become an even better rider within our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kielich himself is clearly pleased with the move to Team Visma | Lease a Bike. \u201cI see this as a great opportunity for myself,\u201d says the Belgian. \u201cThis is only my second year in the WorldTour, but when you include my offroad years, I\u2019ve already been part of the same team for eight years. A change of environment will be good for me, and I\u2019m curious to see what it will be like in a new team. Besides the classics, I\u2019m also looking forward to riding a Grand Tour with a team aiming for the general classification.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe will take on a similar role with us,\u201d says Head of Racing Grischa Niermann. \u201cTimo is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,53764,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-111312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-timo-kielich-will-join-team-visma-lease-a-bike-next-season-the-25-year-old-belgian-will-reinforce-the-teams-spring-classics-squad-and-has-signed-a-three-year-contract","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}