Visma-Lease a Bike have allayed fears that Jonas Vingegaard had been injured in the fraught, crash-filled start to stage 15 of the Tour de France, after the Dane was caught up behind a massive pile-up in the opening kilometres, with race leader Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) in a front group ahead of the numerous fallers.
The numbers two, three and four in the GC standings, Vingegaard, Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL) were all affected by the crash, which happened on what was supposed to play out as an uneventful transition stage.
