Wout Van Aert has revealed that Jumbo Visma will do everything in his power to win the green and yellow jersey at the Tour de France this July.

Van Aert won three stages in last year's Tour de France, including the final weekend, but finished fifth in the points race. However, speaking to Het Laatste Nieuws from a training camp in Spain's Sierra Nevada this past July, the Belgian has been in the hunt for at least some of the Tour's mountain days, with Jumbo-Visma GC leader Primoš Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard, that his green challenge will take precedence over the possibility of teamwork. According to HLN, Van Aert has not done much specific climbing training at the Sierra Nevada camp, so it is unlikely that he will join the next Criterium du Dauphiné overall contender.

"Most of the Tour team will be there [at the Dauphiné], which will help us see how well we are functioning as a team and help us take the last step toward the Tour," Van Aert noted.

"The Dauphiné is an important race, I haven't raced it in a while, but it will probably be a sprint race.

On a personal level, much of the Dauphiné will be a confidence-building exercise for Van Aert, but the Belgian's goals at the Tour are more specific, he said. And as he told HLN, it will be very different from 2021.

"That year I was able to ride for the team and pick the stages for my own success," he said.

"Now I'm focused on the green jersey. You have to take points in the intermediate sprints. Then sometimes I need a break in the mountains.

"It's going to be a little different, but the further we get into the final stages of the Tour, the more the team can rely on me as a helper."

Van Aert said the Jumbo-Visma high-altitude training camp in Spain, which ends Sunday, went well, but after Liège-Bastogne-Liège, he took some time off to rebuild his form for the summer, and initially his legs were a bit rusty.

But heading into the summer, Van Aert said Jumbo Visma's belief in winning the Tour overall is "very big," and the team is "going all out" for both green and yellow. He also revealed that the team will skip the Belgian national and world championship time trial this year, although he has his eyes set on "winning" the season-opening time trial in Denmark.

"At the moment, that's not happening," Van Aert, last year's World Championship TT silver medalist, said of sacrificing that event this fall in order to win the road race rainbow jersey.

"I set some goals earlier this year, and the road race [World Championships] is one of them. It's a goal. I learned last year that it's hard to focus on both."

"I'm not going to be able to focus on the road race, but I'm going to focus on the world championships.