{"id":20198,"date":"2026-08-07T05:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/20198\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T05:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:48:07","slug":"visma-celebrates-with-lemmen-vuelta-team-leader-tulett-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/20198\/","title":{"rendered":"Visma Celebrates with Lemmen; Vuelta Team Leader Tulett Loses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a> celebrated a superb victory with Bart Lemmen<\/a> in the Tour de Pologne. The 30-year-old Dutchman won a demanding stage featuring plenty of climbing in the finale, despite having been caught up in a massive crash<\/a> earlier in the day. In the Vuelta a Burgos<\/a>, however, Visma | Lease a Bike had less success with Ben Tulett<\/a>.Lemmen claimed his first professional victory in Poland after having come close on several occasions in recent years. Often, there had simply been one or two riders better than him, but not this time. In Karpacz, he just managed to hold off the rapidly closing Christian Scaroni (XDS Astana). \u201cIt was an amazing feeling when I crossed the finish line,\u201d Lemmen said in a press release from his team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been waiting a long time for my first victory, and today it finally happened. It is special to win at WorldTour level and immediately take the leader\u2019s jersey as well. I still can\u2019t believe it. After the crash, I wasn\u2019t sure whether I would be able to continue. When I got back on the bike, I was hurting everywhere. At that point the adrenaline took over and I decided to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the restart, the peloton rode a little more cautiously, and I used that opportunity to attack. I took the risk of making the move myself and it worked out well. After so many attempts to finally win a race, I\u2019ve done it,\u201d said Lemmen, who is now also the overall race leader. Scaroni is his closest challenger at 26 seconds, with three stages still to come.<\/p>\n

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Bart Lemmen narrowly beat Scaroni<\/p>\n

Tulett loses time in Burgos<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s stage of the Vuelta a Burgos also finished uphill, but there was no Visma yellow among the first riders across the line. Tulett lost around three-quarters of a minute to stage winner Felix Gall and consequently dropped to seventh place in the general classification. Sports director Maarten Wynants had Matthew Brennan provide a strong lead-out ahead of the climb, but Tulett did not quite live up to expectations once the road went uphill.<\/p>\n

\u201cFortunately, Ben felt stronger today than yesterday. He rode a good climb in the first larger group behind the main favourites and managed to finish eleventh,\u201d Wynants nevertheless said positively of the British rider, who is in principle expected to be one of Visma | Lease a Bike\u2019s leaders at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a alongside Brennan and Wout van Aert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visma | Lease a Bike celebrated a superb victory with Bart Lemmen in the Tour de Pologne. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12512,12764,7332,9,12448,12766,12765],"class_list":["post-20198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-bart-lemmen","tag-ben-tulett","tag-cycling","tag-poland","tag-tour-of-poland","tag-visma-lease-a-bike","tag-vuelta-a-burgos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}