As if the surprise loss of his mountain super-domestique Simon Yates wasn’t enough, Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma-Lease a Bike team are now facing the departure of his coach Tim Heemskerk, it was announced yesterday.
Just like Yates’s retirement, the loss of Heemskerk – who has been at the team for eight years – has a very ‘last-minute’ air, coming as it does at the very outset of the new season.
That leaves only two races between now and the Tour de France for the Dane – the Volta a Catalunya at the end of March and his much-talked about Giro d’Italia participation.
That leaves an awful lot of time in which his training will have to do the heavy lifting, and it will have to happen under a new coach too. Visma-Lease a Bike says Vingegaard – along with Heemskerk’s other riders – will be transferred to another team coach, although they have not confirmed who yet.
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