BEYOND RABOBANK

After Rabobank’s withdrawal the team has had a rocky road back to the top of the WorldTour

JANUARY 2013

Tom-Jelte Slagter wins Blanco’s irst races: a stage and the overall at the Tour Down Under. The team wins 38 races in 2013

OCTOBER 2012

On 19 October, Rabobank says it will stop sponsoring elite men’s racing after 16 years. In December, Richard Plugge is named team manager

JUNE 2013

Belkin, takes over the team sponsorship for two and a half years. At the Tour, Bauke Mollema inishes sixth

AUGUST 2013

As a member of the Movement for Credible Cycling, Belkin withdraws its rider Theo Bos on the eve of the Vuelta for low cortisol levels

JUNE 2014

Belkin announce it will stop sponsoring the squad at the end of the season owing to a change in global marketing strategy

JULY 2014

Lars Boom wins a legendary Tour stage over the Roubaix pavé in bad weather. Laurens ten Dam and Mollema inish ninth and 10th

OCTOBER 2014

The team’s ‘yellow’ sponsors LottoNL and Jumbo are con irmed as headline brands for the 2015 and 2016 seasons

MAY 2015

Moreno Ho!land takes the team’s !irst win of the season: stage 2 of the Tour de Yorkshire. The team wins six races all year

JUNE 2015

The team leaves the MPCC. A month earlier, George Bennett was prevented from riding the Giro because of low cortisol levels

MAY 2016

Former ski jumper Primož Roglic !inishes second in the !irst Giro TT and !irst in the second in his !irst season as a pro

MAY 2017

Jos van Emden wins the closing Giro TT. At the Tour, Roglic wins in Serre- Chevalier and Groenewegen on the Champs- Elysées

DECEMBER 2017

Juan-José Lobato is !ired for taking sleeping medication contrary to team rules. Antwan Tolhoek and Pascal Eenkhoorn are disciplined

JULY 2018

Groenewegen wins two Tour stages. Roglic wins a stage and !inishes fourth on GC. It’s the team’s highest GC since 2008

DECEMBER 2018

Visma, a Norwegian software !irm, is announced as the team’s second headline sponsor at the team’s pre-season