When Jumbo-Visma line up at the 2020 Tour, it’s possible that three of their eight men will previously have finished on a grand tour podium: Primoẑ Roglic, third at the Giro, Steven Kruijswijk, third at the Tour and, their latest signing, Tom Dumoulin, winner of the 2017 Giro. Only one team can muster similar firepower - Ineos.
Jumbo-Visma has been on a roll. Since its lowest point results-wise in 2015, when it won just six races, the squad has been rebuilt as a winning machine. In 2017 it won 25 races and in 2018, 33. This year, by the beginning of September, it had won 41 races. That makes 2019 quantitatively the most successful year in its 35-year history. And Jumbo has been operating on a shoestring - ranked 17…