‘You can never count us out’ – Matteo Jorgenson warns against underestimating Visma in Tour of Flanders

Matteo Jorgenson is heading into Sunday’s Tour of Flanders as the leader of Visma-Lease a Bike with the team’s original plan completely changed after Wout van Aert’s horrific crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen ruled him out of De Ronde.

The young US rider told Cyclingnews before the start of the mid-week Classic that “you can’t control every single variable” but he wouldn’t have predicted that four hours later he would be crossing the line victorious as Van Aert sat in hospital with a broken collarbone, ribs and sternum.