Vingegaard: Jumbo-Visma are totally clean, you have to trust us

Jonas Vingegaard finishes stage 20 of the Tour de France
Jonas Vingegaard gets congratulations at the finish line from Jumbo-Visma teammate and stage 20 winner Wout van Aert (Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

Jumbo-Visma’s dominance at this Tour de France was so extreme that Jonas Vingegaard could afford to slow down in the final kilometres of Saturday’s time trial to Rocamadour to concede stage victory to his teammate Wout van Aert. In a Tour with more than a hint of déjà vu, this was something jarringly new.

Van Aert’s victory brought Jumbo-Visma’s tally for this race to six, a figure that might yet increase to seven on the Champs-Élysées. In Paris on Sunday evening, Vingegaard will be feted as the Tour champion, and he will also be crowned king of the mountains. Van Aert will don the green jersey, and he will also be awarded the red dossard as the race’s most combative rider.

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Barry Ryan
Head of Features

Barry Ryan is Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation, published by Gill Books.