The Tour de France appointment is drawing near and the race to "discover" the lineups we will see at the start is beginning. As always well-informed, the Belgian newspaper HLN anticipates what should be the choices of Visma Lease a Bike which will be captained by Jonas Vingegaard, fresh winner of the Giro d'Italia.

Alongside him will be Americans Matteo Jorgenson and Sepp Kuss, Frenchman Bruno Armirail, Belgians Wout Van Aert and Victor Campenaerts, the Mantuan Edoardo Affini and Norwegian Per Strand Hagenes called upon to take the place - in what was the lineup envisioned by the team at the start of the season - of Christophe Laporte, forced to remain sidelined due to a training crash in mid-May, resulting in a quadriceps muscle strain.

Meanwhile Van Aert continues to deal with an elbow wound that - after forcing him to withdraw from the Tour Auvergne Rhône Alpes - became infected and prevented him from joining his teammates at the altitude training camp in Tignes.