NEVER LOSE HOPE: Our Giro Story - Inside The Beehive

A first stage win in a Grand Tour, crashes, eight days in the white jersey, illness, but above all: a team that never loses hope. Our Giro d’Italia was full of mixed emotions.

Team Visma | Lease a Bike entered the first Grand Tour of the year with the goal of winning as many stages as possible. Relive from within the team how we worked towards the first stage win in a Grand Tour by our homegrown talent Olav Kooij. See how the team coped with the withdrawals of Robert Gesink, Christophe Laporte, Kooij and white jersey wearer Cian Uijtdebroeks. And how Jan Tratnik, Tim van Dijke, Edoardo Affini, and Attila Valter never lost hope on the road to Rome.

[CatATN_C]

Love how Cian can always smile despite everything

[cesarortegaescamilla]

It's good that the team shares the good times and the not so good times. Beautiful photograph of the 4 "Bee" gladiators in front of the Colosseum. Jan Tratnik is super human and always with a smile. I hope that everything starts to improve in the Tour and that the best version of Attila returns.
Pura vida 🇨🇷💛

[clumsytriangle]

Cian is such a sweetie. Looking forward to TDF! Love this team.

[elakaminska]

It's awesome that you made a movie to celebrate all the riders and stuff that participated in this very unlucky Giro. The best team building effort I've seen for a long time. Kudos to the team - you are truly fighters!

[lorikendrick]

Had me in tears, then screaming, cheering.. TVL loosing riders, day after day… but, the 4 finishers were AWESOME,
True Grit, guys 🎩
👏👏👏👏 😉

[NielsdeBruijn-GS-docent]

Very interesting and entertaining to see, just like the previous one. Good luck with the Tour prep

[peanutbutter]

Love Visma team's documentaries. Please continue to make more of these.

[orsolyadr.szepesi]

In the good times and in the bad times, the fans are with you Visma!👌

[irvinperez]

The best team in the world !!! We love this !

[Gradgirl]

Love the quality of story telling with these Visma documentaries. Also, love watching the EF Education YT channel!

[GustavoPardo-mtou]

Great video!
Congratulations to the entire team!!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Visma fan from Argentina (NQN) 😃💪🏻🐝🚴🏻🚴🏻‍♀️🚴🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🤗

[rellazusky]

What a likeable young man Olav Kooij is, i wish him a long bright carreer with many big results

[aldrinborja]

wow! even I had a smile on my face when Olav won! this is a very good work to showcase the teamwork of everyone involved. great spirit, great leadership team. here's wishing a great tour also..

[joshceo]

These videos are really great! 🔥 🏆 🐝 🐝

[ramsden]

So sad to see the team depleted and not the force it was last year! 2025 will be better!

[miche_amico]

A good watch even though you all had a tough go at this Giro. Love Jan. Olav comes across well-spoken and intelligent. Seems he and the Van Dijke brothers have a nice relationship coming up together in the dev team. Enjoyed seeing Tim fighting for the sprints after Olav left.

[sparx]

Brilliant warts and all vlog. Visma lease a bike, Chapeau! Here’s to 25 and hopefully beating pog in Le Tour and having less bad fortune. Thank you and I’ve subscribed.

[JoaoPereira-uqtp]

Great job 👏 keep going
Are we going to have something from Matteo Jorgenson and the amazing performances he is having alongside his teammates?

[peterwilliams]

Great team, what an inspiration, FANTASTIC!!

[Michael_J]

Pogacar is just so much better than everyone else its crazy. The goat