Marianne Vos has prolonged her contract with Jumbo-Visma for an additional two seasons, taking her via to the tip of the 2025 season.
The 35-year-old joined the Dutch squad upon its basis in 2021 and can take her stint there to 5 years and previous her thirty eighth birthday at a group she calls “house”.
Vos, who since becoming a member of from CCC-Liv has taken wins at Gent-Wevelgem and Amstel Gold Race in addition to 4 Giro Donne levels plus two and the inexperienced jersey ultimately 12 months’s inaugural Tour de France Femmes, mentioned that she’s nonetheless “discovering new challenges” within the sport as girls’s biking grows.
“I nonetheless actually get pleasure from biking,” Vos mentioned on Friday. “I get pleasure from racing collectively and preventing for victory as a group. Lately, girls’s biking has superior to such knowledgeable stage that I proceed to find new challenges.
“And my very own growth remains to be ongoing. I’m motivated to coach laborious to get the very best out of myself.”
“At Crew Jumbo-Visma, I additionally discover the ambition to get higher day by day and the drive to go all out for it. That is likely one of the the reason why I really feel at house on this group. I additionally just like the professionalism and the private strategy. There’s a variety of room for the person inside the group, which makes the group stronger. I actually like that.”
Vos, who will likely be racing her twentieth season within the peloton in 2025, is joined at Jumbo-Visma this 12 months by 4 neo-pros together with the extremely promising 20-year-old Fem Van Empel.
Seven of the group’s 16-rider roster are aged 21 or below, and 4 are youngsters. Serving to deliver via the following technology of racers is one thing Vos enjoys, she added.
“It is good to share my expertise with the group’s youthful riders whereas additionally studying from them. They make me take a look at issues otherwise. That is how we keep sharpness and set up a powerful group.”
Jumbo-Visma’s technical director Rutger Tijssen praised Vos, who will miss out on her cyclocross world title defence subsequent week as a result of “bodily issues”, hailing her potential to rack up wins (265 and counting) in addition to assist the younger riders within the group.
“Marianne has a powerful observe document. Her listing of honours is already lengthy, and she or he retains successful races. We’re assured that this can proceed within the years to come back,” he mentioned.
“Marianne additionally acts as a mentor to the younger riders. Not by telling them what to do or to not do, however by ‘studying by instance’. She teaches the newcomers so much about easy methods to put together, talk, work collectively and cope with the setbacks that may include being a high athlete. She can be of nice worth to us on this respect.”
