{"id":259602,"date":"2025-11-13T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259602\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:52:10","slug":"visma-says-goodbye-to-one-of-its-most-iconic-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259602\/","title":{"rendered":"Visma says goodbye to one of its most iconic riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 has over the past few years been host for several quality riders, but in a team with so many leaders, it takes a lot to stand out. <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/attila-valter\" title=\"Attila Valter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Attila Valter<\/a> didn&#8217;t manage to get the freedom he ambitioned in the Dutch team and is departing it at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three great years in yellow and black &#8211; and red, white, and green in your case,&#8221; Visma wrote in a message shared on social media. &#8220;You were a trusted teammate of Jonas, along others, sharing many victories, and always ready to help out when needed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Valter joined the team in 2023 coming over from Groupama &#8211; FDJ, and that year he finished fifth at Strade Bianche, helped Jonas Vingegaard to victory at O Gran Cami\u00f1o in his debut, became double national champion and supported the team in their historic one-two-three podium at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 he backed that up with a Top5 at the UAE Tour, another national title and a fourth place at the Olympic Games Road Race, almost snatching a shocking medal for Hungary. He was a quality rider but couldn&#8217;t have freedom in the Grand Tours, whilst in 2025 his performances were significantly more modest. With his contract running out, he wasn&#8217;t renewed, and the 27-year old signed a three-year deal with Bahrain &#8211; Victorious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On multiple occasions, you also showed your own talent for delivering results, a true testament to your versatility. We wish you all the best for the future,&#8221; the message concluded. Valter is a winner of seven pro races and interestingly, all were in Hungary. He&#8217;s got two time trial titles, three road race titles and back in 2020 he won the queen stage and overall classification of the Tour de Hongrie &#8211; his country&#8217;s top event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/attilavalter-66c77b95de2ba.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"attilavalter\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Valter has been a prominent part of Team Visma | Lease a Bike over the past few years. @Sirotti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Visma | Lease a Bike has over the past few years been host for several quality riders,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-259602","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\/259602","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=259602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}