Tradition holds it that the yellow jersey of the Tour de France holds a press conference on the rest day, but Jumbo-Visma’s reinvention of the wheel in recent years has extended to removing even that courtesy.
Jonas Vingegaard was not available to speak to the written press in Clermont-Ferrand on Monday, with his team instead limiting his engagements to one oven-ready, pre-recorded interview, which was then served up via the team’s Telegram channel in the early evening to be reheated by media outlets around the world.
