COMPIÈGNE (France), April 7 — The boss of the team of stricken two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard told AFP yesterday the time to start making cycling safer is now.

This week Vingegaard was hospitalised after a crash in the Basque country that appeared to be caused by the road surface, while the Visma-Lease a Bike team’s other star rider Wout van Aert suffered a similar fate 10 days earlier.