These three people from Brabant can just win a stage in the Tour de France

Mathieu van der Poel (27):

• If all goes well, he is a contender to win the 13.2 kilometer prologue through Copenhagen.
• Also this year he has an eye on the yellow jersey. “Perhaps it can be done in the fifth stage, provided the differences in the classification are still small.” That ride, the second after the crossing to France, is partly over the cobblestones known from Paris-Roubaix.
• He is the eye-catcher of the Alpecin-Deceuninck team.
• He made his Tour debut last year with a stage win and a week in the yellow jersey. “If I win a stage in the coming weeks and finish the Tour, I would be very happy.”
• Earlier this season he completed his first Grand Tour, the Giro.
• He is also high in the lists of possible winners of the green jersey (behind his arch-rival Wout van Aert).
• And a little something, the official Danish Tour de France magazine posted a picture of his little brother David.

Danny van Poppel (28):

• He is suddenly the sprinter at Bora-Hansgrohe after the loss of Sam Bennett. “I understand that I can go for my chance in some sprints.”
• He is having a good season and is number 16 in the UCI rankings.
• In the first week he will certainly also have to work for his leader Aleksandr Vlasov, a candidate for the podium in Paris.
• In 2013, at the age of 19, he was the youngest participant in the Tour since the Second World War.
• He is the son of former sprint cannon Jean-Paul van Poppel.

Steven Kruijswijk (35):

• He is participating in the Tour de France for the seventh time. “I’m going into the Tour with a good feeling, I feel good.”
• The twelfth stage to Alpe d’Huez is especially for him. “That is a mythical mountain and I have good and less good memories of it.”
• In 2019 he finished 3rd in the final standings.
• Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard aim for a good classification at Jumbo-Visma. Kruijswijk is one of the men who has to assist them. “I want to do my part in the second and third week where it really goes uphill and play a role there for Jonas and Primoz.”
• The biggest opponent for all riders is the corona virus. Jumbo-Visma has to leave team boss Merijn Zeeman at home for the time being due to an infection.
• Kruijswijk is also concerned, he told the NOS: “You do what you can to protect yourself. But it will be very difficult if the measures around you are less. That makes you very nervous, especially in the run-up to the tests on the rest days.”