One of the mechanics of the visma.
Photo: EFE – Javier Lizón
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The Visum/Lease Bike, the team of the Tour of Spain, Jonas Vingegaard, lived a chaotic day in the Iberian Round.
In the early hours of this Monday he suffered the theft of 18 bicycles, valued at about 270,000 euros (15,000 each), of the mechanical truck parked in a hotel on the outskirts of Turin.
Although the Italian police managed to recover some abandoned units, the logistics coup arrived just after Vingegaard's victory in the second stage, which had left him as the new leader of the race.
What happened after the theft of bicycles in the return?
The Dutch squad immediately reacted to avoid setbacks at the exit of the third stage.
Their mechanics worked to counterreloj to ensure that cyclists had available bicycles, with the support of other equipment present at the hotel, such as Lidl-Trek and Movistar. The director of the visma, Richard Plugge, thanked the solidarity shown after theft.
Gregario Retirement Key for Vingegaard
The beginning of the week was also marked by the retirement of runners. Alex Zingle (Visma) abandoned after a strong fall that caused him the dislocation of a shoulder, leaving Vingegaard with a gregarious less for the fight for the general and the counterreloj by teams.
Jorge Arcas (Movistar) was also lowered by Dolores in the hip, while one day before the Frenchman Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet, victim of a cranial and dorsal trauma.
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