With just over two months to go until the start of the postponed 2020 Tour de France, Team Ineos, with its three most recent winners - Egan Bernal, Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome - and its three leaders - Primoš Roglic, Tom Dumoulin and Stephen Kruijswijk Two of the strongest lineups on paper, Jumbo Visma with its three leaders, are ideally prepared for the opening of La Grand Boucle in Nice on August 29.

In separate interviews with Servais Naveen, sporting director of Team Ineos, and Meline Zeman, director sportif of Jumbo Visma, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported that the British WorldTour teams will be spending July in Spain While the British World Tour team is hoping to hold a high-altitude training camp somewhere in Spain in July, Jumbo Visma has already secured a base in Tignes in the French Alps, assuring them that they will already be in France should any problems arise when crossing the border due to the COVID-19 virus.

The French government has also reportedly assured the French government that they are already in France.

Speaking to NOS.nl on Sunday, Zeman explained that renting two houses in Tignes was a calculated move.

"It's within driving distance, it's perfect for training, and it's as secluded as possible," he said. 'There's plenty of space and you don't have to stay in a hotel.'

"It's a combination of sporting reasons and the corona measures that come with it," Zeman added. 'It's up to us to be as prepared as possible for different situations.'

Until this weekend, the team's three leaders had not turned the pedal in anger during the shortened 2020 race season, but 2019 Vuelta a España winner Roglic won the Slovenian national championship road race on Sunday, and the 30-year-old will take the national Tour champion jersey at the Tour.

Meanwhile, for Team Ineos, Thomas, Froome, and Bernal have already raced in the Volta ao Algarve, UAE Tour, and Tour Colombia 2.1, respectively, in 2020.

Froome and Thomas are already in Europe, while Bernal, the Tour champion, will remain in Colombia and return to Europe in July.

"The plan is to see if we can go somewhere in Spain in July," Knaben said of the riders' high-altitude camp. 'Preferably somewhere that we've been going to for years.'

"The last thing we want is to go somewhere we've never been," he added. Athletes such as Thomas, Froome, and before them, 2012 Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins, have in the past preferred the Parador Hotel atop Mount Teide in Tenerife, Spain.

According to NOS, Team Ineos athletes have already been training in earnest since the beginning of May.

"It was very varied," Naben said of the riders' ability to train in different places during the pandemic. In England, everyone was able to keep going, but in Colombia that wasn't the case for a while, and in France and Spain, riders couldn't get out for a while. Of course, that had a big impact [on training]."

At Jumbo Visma, intensive training began to take place in June.

"During the previous months we had been physically and mentally fit. Since June 1, we have been fully engaged in training, nutrition, testing, and everything else that matters to us." We are in the middle of it right now."

Due to injury, Dumoulin, who signed with Jumbo Visma, has not raced in over a year since the 2019 Criterium du Dauphiné.

"I think the hunger will only increase," Zeman said. . "When the race resumes, everyone will be jittery."