Jonas Vingegaard and Primož Roglič riding together at the 2022 Tour de France Jumbo-Visma have confirmed their eight-man line-up for the 2023 Vuelta a España , with Jonas Vingegaard and Primož Roglič set to ride as co-leaders.
Vingegaard and Roglič have already won the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia this year respectively, and will join forces as the team attempts to achieve an unprecedented clean sweep of all three Grand Tours.
"It is an ambitious goal that we dare to declare and for which we can field a very versatile and strong eight-man squad in Spain”, said sports director Marc Reef on the team’s official website. "We are ready for anything with this team, and I look forward to starting in Barcelona with these riders.”
Reef also confirmed that both their star riders will have equal status as protected riders. Cycling News "Vingegaard and Roglič will start the race both as our leaders. Roglic had an excellent preparation with a rest after the Giro and then altitude training followed by the Tour of Burgos. Vingegaard took a break after winning the Tour but then started training again, and the signals we got from him are also very good. The big goal is for one of them to reach Madrid in the red jersey.”
Joining them will be Sepp Kuss , who was a part of the winning line-ups at both the Giro and Tour, as well as all three of Roglič’s previous Vuelta victories in 2021, 2020 and 2019. He’ll again adopt […]
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