Sam Oomen and Tosh van der Sande have not started Liège-Bastogne-Liège today due to Covid-19. The team lacks Wout van Aert, Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard. Some have criticized the absence of one of the latter two, a mindset that is not justified according to Tiesh Benoot.
"That there is criticism of their absence? I think that is absolutely not justified. If you are then finished in the Giro or the Tour, people ask why they raced in the spring. That really makes no sense," Benoot said in the presentation of
Jumbo-Visma at the fourth monument of the season. Roglic prepares for the Giro d'Italia whilst Jonas Vingegaard ended his spring earlier in order to have more time to prepare for the Tour de France. Benoot hence has taken up the lead of the Dutch team this week.