Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard: The Wizard of Visma

[Volderke]

It seems Vingegaard has learned something from medieval war tactics: it's more effective to steal the horses than to fight your opponents.
He won the internal leadership war by grabbing 3 bikes in 1 minute, of which 2 were his team mates'...
I have never seen a better bike thief!

 

[Rackham]

Did he? Where?

Tour de Francia 2022: Michael Rasmussen: "Vingegaard tiene más posibilidades que Roglic, en el Jumbo es el número uno" | Marca

 

[Blobs]

Tour de Francia 2022: Michael Rasmussen: "Vingegaard tiene más posibilidades que Roglic, en el Jumbo es el número uno" | Marca

I don't read spanish, but from google translate I gather that he says that he sees Vingegaard as the biggest threat in Jumbo, as he looks better in the mountains, but that they need them both to beat Pogacar.

Unless that's way off, I don't interpret that as him militating for sole leadership for Vingegaard.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Can you give a couple of examples of this? I haven't seen this at all. Not even here in Denmark, where the general consensus seems to be that it was a shame that Roglic lost time.

Edit: By "general consensus" I mean the few articles I've read, and the few people I've talked to. Obviously I don't know what most people are thinking, but I haven't seen any rejoicing anywhere.

Thats the general consensus everywhere, yeah. Only people with no knowledge of cycling goes "thats good for Vingegaard, I love it" after such a crash by one of the favorites. Everybody would prefer a fair fight. These accusations are stupid.

Aint no one happy about this at all, even though it might be a positive for Vingegaard since Roglic will have to go long at some point and he can benefit from that - potentially.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Yeah, whatever fits your narrative, Rackham. Of course there's some Vingegaard fans delighted about yesterdays outcome, but to call it a "lobby all over the internet" is quite a stretch. Personally I think the race would benefit from having two Jumbo guys fit and close to Pogacar, so yesterdays result didn't feel like a win in any way (it never does, when it's bad luck and not bad legs deciding races).

Not sure I’d class Vingegaard as a winner from yesterday. He is likely stronger than Roglic in the very high mountains in any event where the road always dictated the leader.

He’s lost further time to Pogacar who stomped his authority. Thought Vingegaard would finish second and still think he will but his best shot of actually winning (a long shot in any event) would have been to have kept Roglic as close as possible in GC.

We have to be realistic here. In the current situation there is no chance they have Vingegaard offer or risk his chances for Roglic. While had they finished together, that might still have been a possibility in a certain scenario. With losing only 13 seconds and, unlike Pogacar, getting a free ride, he personally really did "win" yesterday.

That has little to do with cheering for Roglic' bad luck.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

We of course have to see how affected Roglič is by the crash, but he's still only 2 minutes behind Pogačar. Pogačar might not have to respond immediately to every Roglič attack, but if he doesn't and isn't able to crack Vingegaard afterwards, then Roglič might be able to crawl back time. Or If Vingegaard is flying, he might be able to make it across to Roglič in that scenario. If Pogačar is simply too strong, the misfortunes yesterday won't matter much anyway.

And Roglič is also still so close, that there would be no reason to sacrifice him, if Vingegaard is in suffering on la Planche des Belles Filles, for instance.

 

[kingjr]

It's quite disingenuous to pretend there isn't a sizeable chunk of comments on social media from people who believe yesterday was (at least) a good result because Vinge became clear leader.

What do you want me to do? Repost comments from youtube, Twitter & online forums? Or how about former pros like Rasmussen (the infamous chicken) who was militating for Jonas to have leadership just last week.

It's all there.



It depends on how you exaggerate the 'internet wide lobby' comment just to minimize my point.

If you want to compare cycling comments to more important stuff going on in the world, then yes, it could be said it's incongruous to post 'internet wide lobby' when we're merely talking about the TdF. But within context of the cycling world bubble, sure, there's loads of people who wanted Vinge as sole leader & Rog to work for him.

I don't see why a debate over semantics should exist in this instance.

I think it may also be a case of people wanting to see someone seriously challenge Pogacar this year, or even beat him, and they have more faith in Vingegaard being able to do that.

 

[Elos Anjos]

I think it may also be a case of people wanting to see someone seriously challenge Pogacar this year, or even beat him, and they have more faith in Vingegaard being able to do that.

It seems you are part of the problem too, jumping on the fashion bandwagon of social media trends.
Vingo is too clumsy and nervous to be a real threat, while Roglic has actually proven himself in GTs multiple times and against Pogacar.

 

[kingjr]

It seems you are part of the problem too, jumping on the fashion bandwagon of social media trends.
Vingo is too clumsy and nervous to be a real threat, while Roglic has actually proven himself in GTs multiple times and against Pogacar.

I'm speculating about what other people's motivations might be, I didn't say they were my own (they are not). I'd prefer both Pogacar and Roglic over Vingegaard. And this stuff about social media trends is bollocks, I don't care about those. But hey, you're upset, I get it. It's understandable.

 

[Elos Anjos]

I'm speculating about what other people's motivations might be, I didn't say they were my own (they are not). I'd prefer both Pogacar and Roglic over Vingegaard. And this stuff about social media trends is bollocks, I don't care about those. But hey, you're upset, I get it. It's understandable.

Fair point. I don't think Jumbo are to blame entirely on what happened to Roglic and how he was not that well supported during his chase back to the peloton (he was hurting), but clearly people are both finding a culprit (Jumbo) and a reason for it (favouring Vingo).

 

[AlfaLum]

I think it was Vingegaard who made Vlasov crash.

 

[kingjr]

I think it was Vingegaard who made Vlasov crash.

Kämna had to dodge that thing in the middle of the road, Vingegaard had to slam the brakes and Vlasov crashed as a result.

 

[Valv.Piti]

After today, I legitimately think he can win the Tour already this year. Pog obviously still the favourite. Never thought that before today. Insane performance, and I cannot wait until we hit Granon!

 

[Bonimenier]

I always thought his biggest strength was long climbs. PDBF should be the bread and butter of the Slovenians so very good performance of Vingegaard.

 

[HelloDolly]

Thank God for Vingegaard as we have a race

Everyone talking as if Pog thrashed him but they finished on the same time and Vinge is not a one climb explosive type

I have very high hopes for this young man...as do all neutrals who want a race
Now Jumbo will have to up their tactics and look at how they use Roglic

 

[Peyroteo94]

The only problem I see is Ineos, Movistar, etc are going to respond to Roglic when he attacks. So this is a mano a mano.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Looks like Eddy was right when he said before today that Vimgegaard is the only one who can trouble Pogacar...

 

[Jumbot]

Good performance today, his 3rd 2nd place in TDF stage and always behind the same man... The hope lives for another day

 

[Lequack]

We don't talk about the tall bike incident

 

[Tim Cahill]

âï¸ Tour back.

36 seconds · Clipped by Tim Cahill · Original video "Vingegaard is Ready to Fight PogaÄar | Tour de France Stage 7 2022 | Lanterne Rouge x Zwift" by Lanterne...

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[Taxus4a]

Is the favourite for Alp Dhuez stage...for the rest, Will be no easy to drop a man Who climb nonso well in the high mountain, but with the mitocondries of Pogacar

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

'the best climber in the world', not my words but that of pog - the best climber in the world.

 

[Red Rick]

We don't talk about the tall bike incident

This /r/mesi *** is getting outta control and I'm here for it

 

[HelloDolly]

So why is WVA and Jumbo not riding to make sure Pogacar doesn't get bonus and Vinge is not dropped ??

 

[noob]

So why is WVA and Jumbo not riding to make sure Pogacar doesn't get bonus and Vinge is not dropped ??

Because as sad as it sounds Wout is a more sure thing than Jonas or Roglic.