Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has admitted that he was worried the proposed merger of Jumbo-Visma and Soudal-QuickStep would have diminished his race as a spectacle by putting Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel on the same team.
The collapse of the plan – not to mention Primož Roglič’s transfer to Bora-Hansgrohe – instead means that the four principal contenders for the Tour will be racing on four different teams next July.
