The Netherlands has just finished a great cycling season. The good results make Michael Boogerd and Bobbie Traksel optimistic for the future.

The Netherlands can look back at an excellent cycling year with a total of 104 wins in UCI races. Niki Terpstra wont Paris-Roubaix, Lars Boom won the stage on the cobbles in the Tour de France and Pieter Weening took a stage win in the Giro d'Italia.

Due to those performances, Michael Boogerd and Bobbie Traksel are very optimistic about the cycling future of the Netherlands. 

"We are doing well, there is so much potential at the moment," Traksel who is working as cycling commentator and president of the Association of Professional Cyclists, told NU.nl .

For the coming season, he has big hipes for Robert Gesink who rode strongly in the Vuelta a Espana before he left the race due to personal matters.

"He really came back strongly and I hope he will focus less on the GC and more on wins," said Traksel who also has big hopes for Lars Boom at Astana. "Boom will again show himself at the top level. With his talent, he should win Paris-Roubaix."

Boom is not the only rider who will join a foreign team. Bauke Mollema will be riding for Trek in 2015.

"It's good that the riders are spread out. Maybe we can win a bit more in that way. We have three riders who can finish in the top 10 of the Tour," said Boogerd who will be a sports director at the Roompot Orange team, probably referring to Gesink, Mollema and Wilco Kelderman.

He is very positive about the Dutch cycling.

"I think that many countries will envy us. It looks very good and there are plenty of resources to pursue this development," said the former rider.

Boogerd is mainly impressed by Wilco Kelderman and Tom Dumoulin (both 23 years old). 

"They are ready to win even more. They are riders who have taken a major step in their development."