The Jumbo-Visma crew for the Tour de France will embrace 2022 winner Jonas Vinegegaard, Wout Van Aert, Dylan van Baarle and the USA’s Sepp Kuss. Nevertheless senior directeur sportif Merijn Zeeman has indicated that Giro d’Italia winner Primož Roglič is not going to be a part of the ultimate eight-rider squad and is prone to give attention to the Vuelta a Espana and/or Il Lombardia after taking a break from racing in July.
Roglič has despatched blended messages since profitable the Giro d’Italia per week in the past. He reaffirmed that the Tour ‘is lacking from my palmares” final Sunday, then throughout a go to to the Netherlands to have a good time his Giro d’Italia victory, when requested about driving this yr’s Tour, stated: “No. Possibly. I do not know.”
It was as much as Zeeman to present some readability.
“I will depart Primoz alone for now. After that we are going to make new plans,” he advised Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.
“Earlier than the season we pencilled in that he would additionally experience the Vuelta, so that’s actually a viable possibility. Primož would additionally actually prefer to experience and win Il Lombardy. He actually has these qualities.”
The 2023 Jumbo-Visma line-up can be similar to the crew that helped Jonas Vingegaard defeat Tadej Pogacar in 2022. Van Baarle will substitute Roglič within the eight-rider line-up, with the remainder of the crew the identical as in 2022.
Vingegaard is the crew’s sole general contender this yr, whereas van Aert targets stage victories quite than the inexperienced factors jersey so he will be contemporary for the Glasgow World Championships that come two weeks after the Tour ends.
Additionally within the line-up are van Baarle, Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot, Nathan van Hooydonck and Kuss.
Zeeman indicated that Kelderman was first reserve after he missed the Giro because of the accidents he suffered at Tirreno-Adriatico. Kuss was a late substitute for the Dutch veteran on the Giro however impressed with the way in which he helped Roglic restrict his timer losses within the mountains.
“Wilco goes alongside within the course of in the direction of the Tour. If we end up to wish him, he will be there instantly. We have now a powerful reserve, that provides peace of thoughts,” Zeeman stated of Kelderman.
Kuss has been recovering at dwelling in Andorra for the reason that Giro d’Italia and is unlikely to race once more earlier than the Tour de France.
Vingegaard and among the Tour de France crew are driving the Critérium du Dauphiné which begins on Sunday, whereas van Aert leads one other Jumbo-Visma squad on the Tour de Suisse which begins on June 11.
