Jonas Vingegaard is not the only rider on a successful comeback trail at Visma-Lease A Bike in this year's Tour de France and Belgian star Wout van Aert provided the cycling world with another reminder of that at Pau, where he claimed second on a frantic reduced bunch sprint behind fellow-Belgian Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck).
Van Aert's bad crash during Dwars door Vlaanderen in March forced him to skip his original target for the first half of the season, the Giro d'Italia. But with a third, a sixth, a fourth and now two second places in this year's Tour de France, Van Aert is clearly in flying form in his alternative pathway towards the fast-approaching Olympic Games. That his latest success came in the same city of Pau where he suffered a massive crash and injuries in the 2019 Tour de France during a time trial only helped underline that fact.
