Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma-Lease a Bike team will better understand if he can recover in time for the 2024 Tour de France within the next two weeks.

Vingegaard was released from a hospital in the Basque Country on Monday, 12 days after his high-speed crash in Iturria Basque. Vingegaard, a two-time Tour de France winner, suffered a broken collarbone and several ribs, as well as a lung contusion and pneumothorax, and was hospitalized for an extended period due to lung damage.

Vingegaard and the Wisma Lease-a-Bike team have not revealed where he will spend his convalescence, but it is believed that he will spend time with his family in Denmark or in Lugano, Switzerland, where he just moved to in 2023.

Vimalies a Bike has understandably protected Vingegaard's privacy as he recovers, but France Maassen spoke to Danish television station TV2 about his injury, his recovery, and his chances of competing in the Tour de France.

"He had a punctured lung, that was the main problem. He had a broken collarbone, broken ribs, broken fingers, but the most delicate problem was the punctured lung," Maassen told TV2 about Vingegaard's lung contusion and pneumothorax. [I am not a doctor, but we will see what is possible in the next few weeks and then we will start a new plan."

"He will walk first, run indoors, then on the road. That's the procedure, but he can't say when."

"The most important thing is that he recovers. After that, we make a good plan for him."

Senior Director Sportif Merijn Zeeman has already revealed that Vingegaard will not participate in the Visma-Lease a Bike Tour de France high altitude training camp in May, and even if he is not in the best shape, he will still compete in the Grand Boucle He dismissed the idea that he might compete in the Grand Boucle even if he is not at his best.

"I don't think so," Maassen agreed.

"It's important for Jonas to be at 100% going into the Tour. It's a really hard race. He's won the Tour twice and he's not thinking about finishing in the top 10 or anything like that. He has to be in the best condition he can be and we will see in the next few weeks if that is realistic."

"He has to recover from a very bad crash. We will have to see what progress he makes in the next two weeks.

"Jonas is a special guy. He may recover quickly, but as I said, I am not a doctor and it is too early to make a decision."