Rogic and Bernal both poised to return from injury
Three-times winner Primoz Roglic will race the final Grand Tour of the season, the Vuelta a Espana, despite suffering serious injuries in last month's Tour de France, his team Jumbo-Visma confirmed.
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Roglic to race Vuelta after recovering from injuries
Three-times winner Primoz Roglic will race the final Grand Tour of the season, the Vuelta a Espana, despite suffering serious injuries in last month's Tour de France, his team Jumbo-Visma said on Monday.
Remco Evenepoel and Julian Alaphilippe named in strong Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team for Vuelta a Espana
Remco Evenepoel will be flanked by Julian Alaphilippe as he targets victory at La Vuelta after being named in Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl’s team for the final Grand Tour of 2022. The Belgian will be hoping to put pressure on three-time defending champion Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), who is expected to line up in Spain despite abandoning the Tour de France with injury. Ad Evenepoel has shown impressive form this season, having won Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the Tour of Norway and Clasica San Sebastian.
Vuelta a Espana: Primoz Roglic back on the bike after Tour de France abandonment, two weeks before Grand Tour
Primoz Roglic has returned to training following his abandonment from the Tour de France, although his chances of racing in the Vuelta a Espana are up in the air. Roglic crashed on the cobbles in Stage 5 of the Tour, dislocating his shoulder before continuing to race on.
Erik ten Hag: How Manchester United boss inspired masterplan to topple Tadej Pogacar at Tour de France
Jumbo-Visma’s masterplan to unravel Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) at the 2022 Tour de France was partly inspired by an unlikely source: Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag. Jonas Vingegaard ended Jumbo-Visma’s wait for the yellow jersey in Paris on Sunday, with his triumph teed up by a spectacular double assault on Pogacar on Stage 11. Ad/> Vingegaard and team-mate Primoz Roglic, then still in GC contention, took it in turns to accelerate clear on the kinder slopes of the Col du Galibier, forcing Pogacar to close each move and expend energy.
Opinion: Jumbo-Visma bury 2020 demons with emphatic one-two for Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert
Wout van Aert watched his team leader defend the yellow jersey in a time trial in the penultimate day of the Tour with far more relish than he did two years ago at La Planche des Belles Filles. It certainly helped that Tadej Pogacar had a far larger deficit to close than the 57 seconds he overturned to reel in Primoz Roglic back in 2020 on what was the darkest day in Jumbo-Visma’s history – a day which spawned the now ubiquitous meme of Tom Dumoulin and a masked Van Aert watching on, helpless and in horror, as the Slovenian debutant pulled the rug from under his compatriot’s feet.
Tour de France 2022: Jonas Vingegaard set to win race after stage 20 time-trial – live!
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Philipsen wins stage, Vingegaard loses key allies as Tour de France hits boiling point
CARCASSONE, France: Jonas Vingegaard kept hold of the leader’s yellow jersey at the Tour de France on Sunday but only after surviving a fall and losing two key Jumbo-Visma teammates to injury which weakened his defenses in a tense struggle for the title with defending champion Tadej Pogacar.