Visma-Lease A Bike are making their closing preparations for subsequent month’s Tour de France with a closing coaching camp in Tignes as 10 riders – together with Wout van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard – come collectively earlier than the ultimate eight-man choice is made.
Reigning champion Vingegaard has already been coaching in altitude in Tignes for per week, whereas on Monday Van Aert and Christophe Laporte head out to affix him.
The trio will then be joined by the crew’s Critérium du Dauphiné squad – together with Sepp Kuss, Matteo Jorgenson, and Tiesj Benoot – after the conclusion of the race, with the crew’s determination on the Tour de France squad anticipated in round two weeks.
Vingegaard and Van Aert are each working their approach again from main crashes earlier within the yr, with the Dane nonetheless recovering from his Itzulia Basque Country fall and Van Aert having suffered a spring Classics-ruining crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen.
Van Aert has bought one race beneath his belt, having taken half within the four-day Tour of Norway on the finish of May.
Visma-Lease A Bike directeur sportif Frans Maassen mentioned that the race could have come “just a little too early” for Van Aert however helped the Belgian perceive his stage of health.
“We will take a look at the extent of every rider,” Maassen informed Het Laatste Nieuws.
“It wasn’t one thing for Van Aert to need to drop away on the uphill end of levels 1 and a couple of in Norway. But then he took half within the bunch sprints on levels 3 and 4, and he actually ought to have gained the ultimate stage.
“Maybe the Tour of Norway got here just a little too early for him. But he’s Wout van Aert. He recovered rapidly and improved each day. He had feeling after Norway however in fact, there’s nonetheless lots of work to do.”
Should Van Aert make the Tour squad, he’d be anticipated to play a crew function in addition to attempt for his personal possibilities throughout sure levels. There’s additionally preparation for the time trial on the Paris Olympic Games to consider.
“Lots will depend upon the function Van Aert will get, ought to he experience the Tour,” Maassen mentioned. “With or with out Vingegaard, that will likely be a distinct function every time.
“He is sensible, he can decide for himself whether or not he wants the Tour to grasp his Olympic dream, or whether or not it is higher to have an altitude coaching camp in Livigno in July.”
