THE RANGE OF WOUT VAN AERT
Until stage 20 of the Tour de France, it had been a decent race for Wout van Aert. He might have been expecting to help his team leader Primož Roglic try to win the race, but the Slovenian had started the race battered and bruised from a crash in the Dauphiné, and then bent himself further out of shape when he crashed twice more in the first three days. On the upside, Van Aert had helped his team rescue their race. He won the Mont Ventoux stage, his Jumbo-Visma team-mate Sepp Kuss had won in Andorra and his deputy team leader Jonas Vingegaard was an impressive second overall. Van Aert was even sitting in 19th overall, one place better than his final finish the year before.
And then, in the space of the last
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