Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

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Jonas drew first blood.

The funniest thing I've learned this week is that although Van Hooydonck apparently is Vingegaard's best friend, the feeling don't seem to be mutua. NVH had no issues with talking to someone at JV and say thank you for Vingegaard's dedication, but he couldn't be bothered to reply to the text Vingegaard send him.

Yeah, when you are just out of a medically induced coma after a heart attack, while being in the hospital with your injured pregnant girlfriend, replying to text messages is of course top of mind o_O
 
Yesterdays posts in this thread seems pretty funny now - Vingegaard acted exactly like he has indicated.

If there acutally is a battle about being nr. 1 on Jumbo for nexts years tour de France, then we will probably see Roglic on a new team. That could be interesting, since there would be more contenders and I would love it as a cycling fan.

Overall i do understand if Roglic wanted to go for another Vuelta win for the history-books and not give the win away for free.
I also understand if Vingegaard wanted to win both TDF and Vuelta in the same year and I'm sure he could do it, if he really wanted it.

Maybe Jumbo did make a mistake bringing all three guys for this race:)

I'm not sure about my own feelings of given a grand tour victory away for (almost) free. It seems a bit degrading to the Vuelta. On the other hand, Sepp Kuss is a nice guy and have done a lot for the team.........
 
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Well put. The mental gymnastics on this forum should be a human study in itself. Everyone and their dog are trying to twist and turn every action and every word to fit their quite obvious agendas. I wonder if these people are actually convincing themselves in the process of if it's mostly cope mechanisms on display?
What's up with people lecturing? (insert vomit emoji).
 
Yes, your lectures are on a loop!
-Don't assume that you are the smartest person in the room.
-If you assume that you are the smartest person in the room, you probably aren't.
-If you are the smartest person in the room, don't keep telling everyone that you are.
Thank you for lecturing me on what I should assume...

I felt that he was being disingenuous yesterday...today he proved that he wasn't being disingenuous.
It's always easier to hate. As evidenced by the more than 5000 comments on the post about yesterday's stage on Jumbo's instagram page, all of them negative... as opposed to the few hundred on any other stage. Now there's a lecture for you.
 

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Look at what you whining caused, Jonas has now been forced to hand over the victory to his domestique even though he could destroy him at any time.
What kind of competitor wants a pity win lmao. This outcome only has losers in it.
 
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Yesterdays posts in this thread seems pretty funny now - Vingegaard acted exactly like he has indicated.

If there acutally is a battle about being nr. 1 on Jumbo for nexts years tour de France, then we will probably see Roglic on a new team. That could be interesting, since there would be more contenders and I would love it as a cycling fan.

Overall i do understand if Roglic wanted to go for another Vuelta win for the history-books and not give the win away for free.
I also understand if Vingegaard wanted to win both TDF and Vuelta in the same year and I'm sure he could do it, if he really wanted it.

Maybe Jumbo did make a mistake bringing all three guys for this race:)

I'm not sure about my own feelings of given a grand tour victory away for (almost) free. It seems a bit degrading to the Vuelta. On the other hand, Sepp Kuss is a nice guy and have done a lot for the team.........
Vingegaard acted exactly like he has told, Roglic too, contrary to previous days. Jumbo bosses were full of this *** show, which Grischa Niermann couldn't handle, and they draw the line. Enough is enough, Kuss wins.

Oh and Kuss is not the problem, he never was, and I doubt he'll ever be. He was in this situation only because his two teammates are strongest riders of the race by far. Those two, on the other hand, I wouldn't put them in any race together anymore. They will act as a main opponents to each other.