“Imagine that the Tour de France winner was coming home from one hour riding a bike on the flat part in Denmark, and being very tired after that one hour, you can imagine he was very far away."
That was how Visma-Lease a Bike lead sports director Merijn Zeeman described one of the multiple memorable points on Jonas Vingegaard’s rollercoaster pathway from what Zeeman called the “worst crash he had in his career” in April, to Thursday’s announcement, two months later he will take part in the Tour de France.
