They are the only WorldTour team to be without a win in 2015 but Team LottoNL-Jumbo’s Nico Verhoeven believes that spirits are high within the Dutch squad.
This season the team have taken a handful of second places but have missed out on winning a single race.
“Morale is ok but we’ve had a lot of injured riders and in February a lot of riders were sick with fever,” Verhoeven told Cyclingnews at the finish of stage 1 at the Tour de Yorkshire.
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“When you have a smaller team than last year it makes it hard to make something in the big races.”
The squad have certainly been beset with illness and bad luck this year. Robert Gesink, Laurens ten Dam and Moreno Hofland have all missed large parts of the season already, while the squad has also shrunk in terms of budget and rider roster since last year when they competed as Belkin.
"Gesink is only now riding his second race of the year in Romandie and he’s one of the top riders in the team. Then Hofland only started today again and he was okay in Paris-Nice but then was sick. Ten Dam still isn’t right as he crashed and had four broken ribs earlier in the year. He’s riding again but he’s not in his best shape.”
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