PROFESSIONALS | 06/17/2024 | 08:58
by Guido La Marca
The countdown is coming to an end and time X is rapidly approaching at Visma Lease a Bike. There are now 13 days left until the start of the Tour de France and even less until the day of the announcement of the lineup that will tackle the Grande Boucle.
The Tour of Switzerland concluded yesterday, the Dutch team now shifts all its attention to Tignes where he has been at work for weeks Jonas Vingegaard with an ever-increasing number of companions.
The questions that revolve are always the same: will Vingegaard race the Tour? And who will be the 7 riders on the team?
Last December, the coaches had hypothesized a team composed of Vingegaard with Sepp Kuss, Matteo Jorgenson, Steven Kruijswijk, Dylan van Baarle, Christophe Laporte, Jan Tratnik and Tiesj Benoot at his side.
But at the end of March Va Aert fell who was forced to shelve the Giro d’Italia project, before that Kelderman had ended up on the ground he was also forced to give up the Giro, therefore Vingegaard’s bad fall at the beginning of April and finally the bad accident of Van Baarle and Kruijswijkboth with fractures, forced to give up the Tour.
Not only that, but it’s also there Tratnik – which among other things will move to Bora next year – which was diverted to the Giro and therefore he has already spent a lot of energy.
And Van Aert?He resumed at the Tour of Norway with good placings, he has the Olympic Games as his goal but in Tignes they tell us that he is working very well.
At the time of the initially planned training they are eligible for enlistment Sepp Kuss, Matteo Jorgenson, Christophe Laporte, Jan Tratnik and Tiesj Benoot. There should be space at their side Kelderman with Van Aert.
And the doubt remains Vingegaard: the more days pass, the more trust grows, even if it is a real race against time. A race to be won before the other race even starts, the most important one of all, the Tour de France.
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