“Team Visma-Lease a Bike” showing their intention for 2024!! A double win at the opener of the road season in Belgium!! The “Omloop Nieuwsblad” saw the clever fox *Marianne Vos* taking the women’s edition, followed by the first ever Slovenian *Jan Tratnik* winning the men’s race. Add the win today of Jonas Vingegaard in the “O Gran Camino” 3rd stage in Spain, where Adam Rafferty (EF Education-Easypost) finished a brilliant 24th, about 52 sec down to Jonas!

All photos of the Omloop are screenshots from Discovery + and back ground feature photo taken by Wim Vanneste soigneur Visma.

2024 3rdO Gran Camiño – The Historical Route(2.1) Stage 3 Xinzo de Limia›Castelo de Ribadavia (173.2km)

Result rit 3: 1st. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) 3u49’53”, 2nd. Carlos Canal (Spa) @ 30″, 3rd. Quentin Pacher (Fra) s.t., 4th. Gotzon Martin (Spa) @ 31″ 5th. Guillermo Thomas Silva (Uru) s.t. (24th. Darren Rafferty @52 sec)
GC: 1st. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) 7u52’51”, 2nd. Egan Bernal (Col) @ 1’13” 3rd. Jefferson Cepeda (Ecu)@ 1’15” 4th. Cian Uijtdebroeks@1’35” 5th. Lenny Martinez (Fra) @s.t. ( 22nd. RAFFERTY Darren EF Education – EasyPost @3:10 & 7th U23 GC) (photo above courtesy of @Getty Images)

Darren already got a second in the opening TT stage on Thursday this week !! A successful start as a neo-pro!!