The two-time Paris-Nice winner tells Cyclist about life at Visma-Lease a Bike, riding for Jonas Vingegaard and his own Grand Tour prospects

Cyclist: 2023 was your breakthrough year. What changed?

Matteo Jorgenson: I’d spent three years at Movistar and was progressing at a good rate but I still hadn’t won a race. I was coming into the final year of my contract and felt I’d learned what the best teams were doing in terms of training and nutrition but because of their budget the team couldn’t provide me with those things.

I decided before the 2023 season to invest everything I earned that year into my training and equipment, including my own personal altitude camps. I sacrificed everything and literally trained alone for four months, doing everything perfectly. I’m really happy I did that because I won my first race at the Tour of Oman [in February 2023] and that was a really big mental barrier to break through. Once that happened it made me look at myself and the sport completely differently.

What’s been the biggest difference between Movistar and Visma?

My training philosophy. Before, I spent most of my life training in the grey zone and riding a lot of tempo, but at Visma we have a polarised training approach and it’s probably made the biggest ever difference to my performance.

This article was published by Cyclist magazine in February 2025 You can read the full article here.