Jumbo-Visma are the second team to reveal their Vuelta a Espana lineup. As they seek a historic third Grand Tour win in one year, the Dutch team comes out guns blazing with Primoz Roglic, Jonas Vingegaard, and Sepp Kuss to attack the mountains.
Roglic is just off a dominant and convincing victory at the Vuelta a Burgos, where he has won his fourth stage-race out of four this year after two and a half months away from competition. The Giro d'Italia winner has been training at altitude beforehand and arrived fresh and in-form to Spain. Jan Tratnik, Attila Valter and Robert Gesink have joined him in both and will be the core of the support team throughout the three weeks, alongside Dylan van Baarle who has raced the Tour de France and World Championships.
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From the Tour as well comes Jonas Vingegaard. The Dane last rode the Vuelta in 2020 in support of Roglic on his second Vuelta a win. His role is not fully defined entering the race. It is known that Jumbo-Visma planned his summer around the possibility of him racing the Vuelta, and after winning the Tour and having the pressure off his shoulders, he decided to make the flight to Spain. He comes in without altitude training and recent racing but should be a key figure in the mountains nevertheless.
Joining them will be Sepp Kuss who is on his own individual storyline, the American climber has proved instrumental in both Roglic and Vingegaard's respective wins at the Giro and Tour, and now he will race a third Grand Tour in support of both now at the Vuelta. His climbing prowess has been nothing but impressive in 2023, and although he crashed hard in the final mountain stage of the Tour - where he then lost his spot in the Top10 - he has recovered in time to make it into the lineup.
Jumbo-Visma for Vuelta a Espana: Jonas Vingegaard, Primoz Roglic, Sepp Kuss, Wilco Kelderman, Attila Valter, Dylan van Baarle, Jan Tratnik and Robert Gesink.
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