Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

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Heemskerk revealed to Velo the 28-year-old only returned to full training last week after he finally shook off the hangover of his brain injury.

All told, the Tour de France star was away from all-things-intensity for five full weeks.

“It was a big setback,” Heemskerk said. “The leaders of a team want to win races, so it was a blow mentally and physically when you do months of training over winter.

“And of course, we’d spent a lot of winter working on Jonas’ muscle mass and explosivity too, he lacked that after last year,” Heemkerk said, referring back to his rider’s brutal crash in the Basque Country.

“But we’re now with an opportunity to start back earlier than we used to. Many riders will rest now, but Jonas is back training.”
Big bulls### IMHO. 9 nine days without training after his crash and then he took a full month to only train at his best?
 
What does fair and square mean? If he crashes, at what point does the crash count? What if Pog is leading at the moment of the crash? Is Pog allowed to keep riding if Vinge drops his chain? Does sickness count?
More about the telecasts than any posts here, but if I never hear another "should he/she have waited" discussion in this sport again, it'll be too soon. I mean sure, if someone has a mechanical or nature break, not the time to attack. But if you crash, especially if it's your own fault, seeya. Same with dropping chains while attacking, etc, etc.

It's a race. Luck is a factor.
 
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Suddenly I wonder if Scandinavian riders spends more time with their kids on average. If it's not just Jonas. It's my assumption that Scandinavian men are at least slightly more involved with their kids than men on average. So maybe it goes for riders too.
 
Pog crashed hard two weeks before MSR. If we follow your logic about RVV, MSR was also not fair.
He had no issues from that crash, he said this himself, but sure you could say MSR was also not fair.

My point is that if both riders are at their best and they don’t crash or get sick we get a fair fight. Which we didn’t get at TDF23 and TDF24. But I used more recent examples like RVV25 which triggered some people.
 
He had no issues from that crash, he said this himself, but sure you could say MSR was also not fair.

My point is that if both riders are at their best and they don’t crash or get sick we get a fair fight. Which we didn’t get at TDF23 and TDF24. But I used more recent examples like RVV25 which triggered some people.
RVV25 was a fair fight.
 
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The TdF 2020 wasn't a fair fight then because Rog crashed two weeks earlier in the Dauphiné. He was still bandaged up when the race started and didn't have time to train on his ITT bike before that fateful stage 20.

These are all valid excuses (including other recent examples pertaining to other riders) but at the end of the day that's part of pro-sport. When Ronaldo had his seizure/whatever health issue before the 1998 World Cup final against France no one (or at least hardly anyone) would say 'hey, the result has an asterisk because of that.