Wout van Aert signs ‘unique’ career-long contract extension with Visma-Lease a Bike worth $700million

Wout van Aert signs ‘unique’ career-long contract extension with Visma-Lease a Bike worth $700million….

Long-term contracts for star riders are becoming more and more common in professional cycling but Wout van Aert and his Visma-Lease a Bike team have gone one step further to sign a “unique” indefinite deal to take him to the end of his career.

The Belgian had been under contract to the end of the 2026 season but will stay at the team for the rest of his racing career.

Announcing the news on social media, the team simply stated “2019-eternity”, though there has as-yet been no confirmation as to whether the contract will take Van Aert beyond retirement from racing.

“I didn’t have to think long when this idea came up,” Van Aert said. “First of all, because at Team Visma-Lease a Bike we work with the best people and the best equipment. Together we are constantly looking for improvement, which means we keep developing individually but also as a team. I owe a lot of success to that, we really do it together.