UAE Team Emirates team manager Joxean Fernández Matxin has said that it is “only right” that double Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease A Bike) will be taking part in the race this year and that “I don't doubt that even if he had a 10% chance of winning, I’d have done the same.”
Vingegaard’s Tour de France participation was thrown into considerable doubt when he was badly injured in a major mass crash in the Itzulia Basque Country in April. Since then he has not raced but has concentrated fully on recovery.
