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Frenchman Christophe Laporte won Stage 19 of the Tour de France, a 188.3km ride from Castelnau-Magnoac to Cahors. Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo–Visma) finished safely in the bunch and has a 3'21" lead over Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) in the general classification.
Jonas Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma’s grip on the yellow jersey is under threat going into the final week of the Tour de France after an eventful Stage 15 for the team. First came the news that Primoz Roglic would be abandoning the race with injury before Steven Kruijswijk also saw his race ended after a bad shoulder injury in a crash. Ad/> Moments later Vingegaard himself was on the deck after a touch of wheels with team-mate Tiesj Benoot, who looked to come off worse from the incident.
Steven Kruijswijk is out of the Tour de France after suffering a horror injury of Stage 15. The Jumbo-Visma rider went down with 60km to go in an incident also involving Martijn Tusveld (Team DSM). Ad/> The accident looked severe enough for Wout van Aert to stop and check on his fallen team-mate, who appeared in great distress as he clutched his right arm in what looked like a bad shoulder injury.
Jumbo-Visma Sport Director Frans Maassen has explained that Primoz Roglic abandoning the Tour de France was because he was «suffering a lot». Roglic took the decision to pull out of the race ahead of Stage 15 «to allow my injuries to heal» following a crash on Stage 5. Ad/> Speaking ahead of the Stage, Maassen described the difficulties Roglic was having and intimated that the decision came from above rather than from the rider himself.
A chaotic Stage 5 of the Tour de France proved to be something of a nightmare day for Team Jumbo-Visma. Having already seen race leader Wout van Aert crash and almost hit a car as he attempted to get back on his bike, the Dutch team then saw Primoz Roglic caught up in a crash involving a hay bale with 29km to go. Ad/> As Stefan Kung (Groupama–FDJ) led the pack through a roundabout, the Swiss rider clipped the corner of the bale, dragging it slightly into the path of Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal).
Filippo Ganna, Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar all leaving the start gate one after the other was always going to provide the key pivot for Friday’s opening 13.2km time trial – although Jumbo-Visma duo Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard had already got their respective Tours off to an assured start in what proved to be fairly treacherous conditions in Copenhagen. Neither Roglic nor Vingegaard were able to dislodge early leader Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel from the hotseat but both riders – to the delight of the home crowds, in the case of Vingegaard – put in highly respectable times just a few seconds slower than the Alpecin-Deceuninck leader.
UAE-TeamEmirates' Matteo Trentin is out of the Tour de France with Covid-19. Trentin's result is the latest in a string of positive tests in elite cycling, with Team Jumbo-Visma boss Merijn Zeeman also announcing his own positive test on Wednesday.
After a run-through of every stage in the 2022 Tour de France, and ahead of yellow, green and polka dot jersey guides, our preview series continues with a look at all 22 teams featuring in the 109th edition of the race, which gets under way in Copenhagen this Friday. We name all eight riders selected for each team, while discussing their stand-out stars, racing styles, targets for the next month, and memorable Tour moments from past races – while also asking the burning question of what French food they are most like.