In the end, Jumbo-Visma was simply no longer big enough for both Primož Roglič and Jonas Vingegaard and so a divorce, amicable or not, was expected sooner or later.
That was already apparent in the depths of last winter, when management took the decision to omit Roglič from the line-up for the 2023 Tour de France, preferring to stake their entire challenge on the defending champion Vingegaard.
