A year ago … Visma | Lease A Bike, Jonas Vingegaard operated by a pneumothorax and admitted to intensive care: “almost impossible to be 100% for the turn”.

was operated on. Hospitalized since Thursday at TXAGORritxu Hospital in Vitoria after a very ugly fall during the fourth stage of the Basque Country Tourthe Danish underwent an operation for the pneumothorax from which he suffered in the fall, during which he also broke a collarbone and a few ribs. According to information provided by the pilot of Visma | Lease a Bike was then transferred to the intensive care unit (which is usual in such cases) in order to monitor his vital signs, and will probably have to stay in hospital for several days, where he was joined by his wife in the hours that followed the fall.

The operation and the long hospitalization now jeopardize all its preparation and, therefore, its presence in Tour de Francewhose departure will be given to Florence on June 29. Merijn Zeeman, DS of the Dutch team, said today that “Vingegaard will have to be 100% to participate in the Tour,” but Dr. Pablo Marcos de la Torrefrom the CEMTRO clinic, explained to AS that ”it will be almost impossible for him to be 100% for the Tour.