Where Does Simon Yates' Shock Retirement Leave Visma in 2026? | THEMOVE+
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Lance Armstrong
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Spencer Martin and Johan Bruyneel discuss Simon Yates' sudden, and shocking, retirement, and, combined with Wout van Aert's injury, where it leaves Visma-Lease a Bike heading into the 2026 season. They also go through Derek Gee-West's official transfer to Lidl-Trek, Soudal's extension for five more years as a title sponsor, and ponder who the best French GC rider is going into 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | We're all living our lives. We're excited for the season. And then we hear news. Simon Yates, 33 years old, |
| 0:05.1 | winner of the Jir de, defending Jirate Italia champion, is retiring, which was a little shocking to me. |
| 0:11.0 | I met the man in November. And then he, you know, we were seeing him right around with his |
| 0:17.0 | Vizma team at training camp in December. And then he's gone. |
| 0:20.9 | Everybody, welcome back. with his Vizma team at training camp in December, and then he's gone it. |
| 0:29.3 | Everybody, welcome back to the Move Plus, our first weekly show of the 2026 year. |
| 0:30.7 | We will be breaking down. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm Spencer Martin. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm here with the O'Humberneill, and we are breaking down the big news in pro cycling this week. |
| 0:35.7 | Simon Yates retiring, Woutvinart surgery on his ankle. Derek G. West signing with Littletrek, as well as a few |
| 0:42.0 | listener questions. It looks like Johann, I'm just back from Maui. It looks like |
| 0:46.5 | Johann just moved to Maui, but he's actually in Morocco on a cycling trip. Very, very |
| 0:51.3 | mysterious, very cool, Johan. I'm quite jealous, but I mean, Marrakesh, Spencer arrived yesterday here for a couple of days, |
| 0:58.9 | cycling with friends. |
| 1:01.0 | Beautiful place, actually. |
| 1:02.1 | I mean, I've never been. |
| 1:04.4 | But the first impressions are really, really positive. |
| 1:07.3 | And yeah, really, really, I mean, definitely something to explore further in the future. Yeah, it looks great. And it is. Yeah, Marrakesha. I don't know why these Moroccan cities loom large in my imagination. A place I would want to go, I didn't know you could ride there. So that's, that's great to know. Definitely can ride. You can do a lot of climbing you can go to i mean tomorrow i'm going |
| 1:27.7 | to visit a place of a friend of mine here it's uh 3,400 meters altitude and you can actually |
| 1:34.3 | ride properly crazy really nice road until there yeah wow that's crazy yeah um well let's take a quick |
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