BARCELONA, 19 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Dutch team Team Visuma-LEASE to Bike on Wednesday has announced Wednesday that Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard will not participate in the Volta to Catalunya, which starts this Monday, after not recovering enough of the fall last Friday at kilometer 85 in the fifth stage of the Paris-Niza.
The double winner of the Tour de France (2022 and 2023) suffered damage to his left hand, which did not allow him to take the exit the next day of the French test and that will also keep him out of the Volta to Catalonia, which starts next Monday in Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona).
Vingegaard, who has never played the Volta to Catalonia and was going to be released in this 104th edition, will still not roll on Catalan roads since he usually opts for Itzulia as a great test in the month of March.
After the decline of the Danish cyclist, the Dutch team has confirmed the seven cyclists that will run in the Catalan test: SEPP Kuss (United States), Steven Kruijswijk (Netherlands), Wilco Kelderman (Netherlands), Bart Lemmen (Netherlands), Simon Yates (United Kingdom), Matthew Brennan (United Kingdom) Low).
In principle it will be the American Sepp Kuss, based in Andorra and winner of the return 2023, who leads the Dutch formation in the Volta, although it is somewhat far from its best state in form and it comes from being 38º in the Volta Ao Algarve. So the newly signed Simon Yates, who comes from being 14 in the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic, could take the reins of the visma.