The Dutch website Cycling Opinions (opens in new tab) reports that Jumbo-Visma will establish a women's team for 2021, with Marianne Vos and Annemiek van Fruten as team leaders.

Jumbo-Visma has evolved from the Rabobank team in recent years and is looking to challenge Team Ineos at the Tour de France with Tom Dumoulin, Primos Roglic, and Steven Kruijswijk as leaders.

According to Cycling Opinions, supermarket chain Jumbo has pushed for the creation of a women's team for the team, with the support of new cycling sponsor Cérvelo, which is expected to replace Bianchi.

Team manager Richard Plagge named Esra Trump of Parkhotel Valkenburg to lead the women's project. Plans for the women's team were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, but are now on track for 2021. Plug seems to have opted to build a new team structure rather than take over the existing women's team. The new team will likely apply for Women's World Tour status and compete with Mitchelton Scott and Trek Segafredo.

Marianne Foss and Annemiek van Vleuten, whose contracts expire at the end of this year, are seen as ideal team leaders for the others; the 33-year-old Foss is one of the most successful and talented riders in women's cycling, and van Vleuten is an aggressive racing style that helped her win the 2019 world title. She returned to racing on Thursday at the Emmacmén Nafaroaco Classicoa in Spain and showed what she is capable of by attacking hard on the final climb to take a solo win.

Jumbo Visma had initially sought Anna van der Breggen and Chantal van den Broeck-Braak for the women's team, but with the arrival of new main sponsor SD Worx guaranteeing the future of the team, both chose to remain with Boels Dolmans They chose to stay. Van der Breggen announced that he would finish his career with the team and would then become Director Sportif, with Van den Broeck-Blaak following a year later.

Esra Trump has proven her management skills at Parkhotel Valkenburg, while Lorena Wiebes and Demi Vollering are turning heads despite a smaller team budget compared to the Women's World Tour team, according to Cycling Opinions and the Parkhotel Valkenburg team will continue to exist in 2021, but in a developmental role and will maintain its connection to Jumbo Visma.

Martin Vestby, currently with the women's team Mitchelton Scott, is expected to take over at Directeur Sportif. The Norwegian has raced in the Netherlands and speaks Dutch.