During the 1990s and much of the 2000s the Lotto team had an image as a rather unfashionable outfit. They were seen as an old school operation, lacking in both flair and style, but under Marc Sergeant the team have flourished in recent years.
This season, with Andre Greipel winning sprints galore, Tony Gallopin and Jens Debusschere lighting up races, Adam Hansen constantly circling the globe, and a flurry of young talents signed up for the future, Lotto Soudal have cemented their place as one of the most successful and cosmopolitan teams in the world.
“I think we have a good team,” Sergeant serves up in his typical modest fashion.
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“We had a good team this year and we have one for next year that’s probably a little bit better.”
It’s the morning of the 2016 Tour de France presentation in Paris and Sergeant has arrived for coffee with Cyclingnews at the Palais des Congrès wearing a snappy dark suit. He is in a relaxed mood - and why shouldn’t he be? Along with the 40 wins his team have secured in 2015 is the knowledge that his squad has only needed finessing and tweaking - rather than wholesale changes - for next season.
While Marcel Kittel and Mark Cavendish are both changing teams and having to almost start from scratch with their lead-outs, Sergeant’s primary sprinter, Greipel, can go into the winter with a more serene mentality after wining four stages of this year's Tour.
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