{"id":280473,"date":"2025-11-24T11:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280473\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:21:14","slug":"no-more-grand-tour-snubs-newest-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280473\/","title":{"rendered":"No more Grand Tour snubs: Newest Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transfer market has been boiling in the past months, as it always happens every year, with plenty of riders switching teams. One of them was <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/attila-valter\" title=\"Attila Valter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Attila Valter<\/a>, as the Hungarian champion is leaving Team Visma | Lease a Bike after 3 seasons to start a new adventure with Bahrain &#8211; Victorious.The 27-year old has proven to be a very reliable domestique, a mandatory condition if your team is full of superstars such as <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jonas-vingegaard\" title=\"Jonas Vingegaard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/wout-van-aert\" title=\"Wout van Aert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wout van Aert<\/a>. However, one of the downsides of riding for one of the best teams in the world is that you can hardly find any opportunities to fight for your own success.<\/p>\n<p>That is what happened to Valter every year, and the situation got even more difficult in 2025 as he was not selected to compete in any of the Grand Tours. That was one of the reasons that led him to move to a different project in which he can have a much bigger and important role.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nLooking for more freedom\u201cThe team\u2019s goals are perfectly matching with my personal ones. This gives me a lot of confidence and I\u2019m excited to start this journey together with them,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/we-see-him-playing-a-crucial-role-in-the-mountains-bahrain-victorious-snatch-visma-rider-on-a-three-year-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valter said back in August when the transfer was announced<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/attilavalter-65e7880d42dfb.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"attilavalter\"\/><\/p>\n<p>All of Valter&#8217;s seven professional wins were in Hungary<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to welcome Attila to Bahrain Victorious. He is a rider we\u2019ve followed for a long time and believe he has the potential to take another step forward with us. Over the next two years, we see him playing a crucial role in the mountains \u2013 supporting our GC leaders while also having the freedom to chase his own results,\u201d team director Milan Ezren said, hinting that the Hungarian rider would have many chances to shine.<\/p>\n<p>This statement seems to be accurate, and Valter has recently confirmed to Eurosport Hungary that the Bahrain &#8211; Victorious management sent him a complete list of all the races in which the team is set to participate in the upcoming season and asked him to choose his ideal calendar at his convenience.<\/p>\n<p>Valter was reportedly allowed to put together almost the entire schedule after discussing it with the team, which shows he is regarded as a key and a valuable piece, as very few riders have that privilege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The transfer market has been boiling in the past months, as it always happens every year, with plenty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[114776,4985,9046,114547,114545,101,56,54,55,8783],"class_list":["post-280473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-attila-valter","tag-cycling","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-lenny-martinez","tag-santiago-buitrago","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wout-van-aert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280473","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=280473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280473\/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=280473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}