{"id":247871,"date":"2025-11-06T19:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247871\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:04:18","slug":"team-visma-lease-a-bike-sign-33-year-old-ds-from-unibet-rose-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247871\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Visma | Lease a Bike sign 33-year old DS from Unibet Rose Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Luxembourg rider Ga\u00ebtan Pons retired from cycling in 2019 at age 27 and became a sports director in recent years, making his presence felt at <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/unibet-rose-rockets\" title=\"Unibet Rose Rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unibet Rose Rockets<\/a> where he&#8217;s spent the past two seasons. His talents haven&#8217;t gone unnoticed and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/team-visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Team Visma | Lease a Bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike have gone on to sign the 33-year old sports director, one who is younger than several of its riders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our sports director Ga\u00ebtan Pons will leave the team for a new adventure in the WorldTour with Team Visma | Lease a Bike. We\u2019re proud to see him take the next step in his career and grateful for everything he brought to our team,&#8221; read a statement from the French team. Unibet has been a topic of conversation over its signings quite a lot over the past few months, but now they have lost an important piece of its staff team.<\/p>\n<p>Visma recognized this, and head of performance Grischa Niermann himself wanted the Luxembourger in his team: \u201cGa\u00ebtan is a young, talented, and ambitious sports director. He already has a lot of experience in the car, and we\u2019re happy to have him on board. We look forward to a great future together&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This adds to the large team of sports directors and assistants the team has, who carry a great deal of responsibility throughout the season as Visma seeks victories in all terrains and in the biggest races in the world including the Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p>New DS who could lead the team in the future<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited to be joining the team. I can\u2019t wait to meet everyone,&#8221; Pons said. !It\u2019s a big new challenge, and I have to get used to fighting to win the Tour de France and not just fighting to get a spot there. But I think that suits me really well, as I always want to win. I love the adrenaline that comes with victory, so hopefully I\u2019ve come to the right team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I met with Grischa Niermann and Jacco Verhaeren, we were quickly aligned. My experience as a rider just below WorldTour level taught me how it feels to be on the bike, which helps when talking with the riders. At the same time, I want to bring a good atmosphere to the team. I always try to bring people together, as I believe they perform better in a safe environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Luxembourg rider Ga\u00ebtan Pons retired from cycling in 2019 at age 27 and became a sports director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-247871","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247871","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=247871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}