Rewards outweigh risks for Jumbo-Visma's Tour de France strategy

The Jumbo-Visma team and Tom Dumoulin unveiled its 2020 race clothing
Jumbo-Visma's 'captains' for 2020 (Image credit: Jumbo-Visma)

Jumbo-Visma’s decision to send Tom Dumoulin, Primoz Roglic and Steven Kruijswijk to the Tour de France - and announce their eight-rider roster at the same time - caught many by surprise, but lead coach Merijn Zeeman is convinced that the rewards greatly outweigh the risks.

The Dutch team announced their full Tour de France team during the tail end of December with all three of their Grand Tour leaders given spots alongside Tony Martin, Sep Kuss, Laurens de Plus, Wout van Aert, and Robert Gesink. 

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Daniel Benson

Daniel Benson was the Editor in Chief at Cyclingnews.com between 2008 and 2022. Based in the UK, he joined the Cyclingnews team in 2008 as the site's first UK-based Managing Editor. In that time, he reported on over a dozen editions of the Tour de France, several World Championships, the Tour Down Under, Spring Classics, and the London 2012 Olympic Games. With the help of the excellent editorial team, he ran the coverage on Cyclingnews and has interviewed leading figures in the sport including UCI Presidents and Tour de France winners.