Will or won’t he? There are always more questions than answers ahead of the Tour de France, but ten days out from this year's Grand Départ, one unknown still clouds the entire picture. Although Jonas Vingegaard has been training in Tignes with his Visma-Lease a Bike squad in recent weeks, his participation in the Tour remains uncertain, and thus so does the entire complexion of the race.
On the evidence of his crushing early season displays, not to mention his dominance in the past two Julys, Vingegaard had looked set to line up as the outright favourite for this year’s Tour, despite facing the highest calibre opposition the contemporary peloton could offer in Tadej Pogačar, Primož Roglič and Remco Evenepoel.
