Cancellara's Classics Column: Jumbo-Visma make everyone look like muppets

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Fabian Cancellara runs his rule over Jumbo-Visma's domination of the E3 Saxo Bank Classic (Image credit: Getty Images)

Cyclingnews is delighted to welcome a new columnist for the 2022 Spring Classics: Fabian Cancellara. During a glittering career, the Swiss rider won the biggest one-day races, often multiple times over, and will be bringing his insights, expertise, and analysis to Cyclingnews' coverage over the next few weeks. First up, he casts his eye over Friday's E3 Saxo Bank Classic

The E3 Saxo Bank Classic was the Jumbo-Visma show. The sponsor is a chain of supermarkets in Holland and it was like the team going into their local store, strolling down the aisle, and placing bottles of champagne into their basket. They made their opponents look like muppets. 

Fabian Cancellara

Fabian Cancellara is an ex-professional cyclist who raced from 2001 to 2016 for Mapei, Fassa Bortolo, CSC and Trek. One of a select trio of riders to have won Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders three times, alongside arch rival Tom Boonen and Johan Museeuw, he is the only racer who can add the Strade Bianche triple to that glittering statistic – first across the line in Siena at four year intervals between 2008 and 2016."Spartacus" was also a formidable time trialist: four times world champion, twice Olympic champion,  his final race as a professional cyclist came in the TT at the Rio Olympics in 2016, where he triumphed over second-placed Tom Dumoulin by a staggering 47 seconds. Alongside various business interests – and being a Cyclingnews columnist, of course – Cancellara is a founder of the Tudor Pro Cycling team, currently racing at UCI Pro Team level.