Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

[Pozzovivo]

They can still pursue their goals without burning themselves out.

Jorgenson didn't race for two months between RVV (06.04) and Dauphine. This is not a good take. Visma is extremely conservative not letting their riders race too much and prepare optimally for the Tour.

If one team has a tour first approach like USPS or Team SKY today, it's VISMA-LAB.

Wellens rode races until may.
Narvaez until 20th of april.
Politt until 18th of may.
Sivakov Liege 20th of april
Soler 27th of april
All did Duaphine and Tour with Pogacar

Almeida rode until 4th of may, and then did the "suboptimal" tour de suisse instead of Dauphine.

Compare Visma to UAE and the result is clear - VISMA make tougher priorites than UAE to prepare optimally for the Tour.

 

[AmRacer]

The team performed extremely well. Better than UAE's. Only guy who did not deliver was Wout, but he's been a bit off all season. Compare that to UAE?

Wout delivered in Paris, but he had the Giro in his legs.

 

[Pozzovivo]

Wout delivered in Paris, but he had the Giro in his legs.

Fair enough but in the context of supporting Vingegaard which was what we discussed.

 

[AmRacer]

Fair enough but in the context of supporting Vingegaard which was what we discussed.

Wout didn't do much

 

[Pozzovivo]

Wout didn't do much

Which was exactly what I said in the original post. OnIy guy who did not deliver for Vingegaard in the tour.

 

[CyclistAbi]

So Wout is to blame for Jonas not to win? If he by any chance isn't will he still pay the price for that next year? Or do you reckon he will maintain his freedom at the Tour?

 

[Valv.Piti]

Ofc Wout is to blame for Jonas being inferior in every aspect of cycling to Pogacar. Thats what Brian Holm told me.

 

[Red Rick]

Ofc Wout is to blame for Jonas being inferior in every aspect of cycling to Pogacar. Thats what Brian Holm told me.

He's not.

But you also can't act like he offered Vingegaard anything.

And before stage 21 his breakaway attempts looked quite suss a lot of the times, including once attacking when Vingegaard was an echelon behind.