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Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

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Cycling111

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Berniece said:
Then he also won't ride LBL. A shame, but TDF is most important for them
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TDF is also important for Pogacar and Remco.

I don't like this return to the Armstrong calendar. One thing it´s to have a reduced calendar or only one-week races, but not even Froome did this.
Visma also says that it isn´t certain that he´ll go to Dauphine.

I also don't think it's right to sell the idea that he does this because he cares about the Tour, as if his rivals didn't care.

Indurain only cared about the Tour in his own words, but he did two years of Giro-Tour.
 
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Cycling111 said:
TDF is also important for Pogacar and Remco.

I don't like this return to the Armstrong calendar. One thing it´s to have a reduced calendar or only one-week races, but not even Froome did this.
Visma also says that it isn´t certain that he´ll go to Dauphine.

I also don't think it's right to sell the idea that he does this because he cares about the Tour, as if his rivals didn't care.

Indurain only cared about the Tour in his own words, but he did two years of Giro-Tour.
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Three.
And he has some wcrr medals.
 
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When he's in shape he's the best GT rider there is, but it's disappointing not seeing him ride more this spring. Could've been a fun battle between Vingegaard/Almeida/Evenepoel in Romandie. It also fits the calendar really well, and it's not like he's been on the road all of spring and needs to be with his family.
 
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Berniece said:
When he's in shape he's the best GT rider there is, but it's disappointing not seeing him ride more this spring. Could've been a fun battle between Vingegaard/Almeida/Evenepoel in Romandie. It also fits the calendar really well, and it's not like he's been on the road all of spring and needs to be with his family.
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It just sounds so hollow in the press release: "I'm really looking forward to racing again".

Are you really?
 
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YavorD said:
I thought Richard Plugge wanted the best riders to race each other more often?

Ironically, his riders are skipping monuments where they hava a real shot in, and plenty of races where they could've started without hurting their season.
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As I said before, he is trying to artificially create the wish for the best riders facing off more often by withholding his best riders from a lot of races.
 
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Cycling111 said:
TDF is also important for Pogacar and Remco.

I don't like this return to the Armstrong calendar. One thing it´s to have a reduced calendar or only one-week races, but not even Froome did this.
Visma also says that it isn´t certain that he´ll go to Dauphine.

I also don't think it's right to sell the idea that he does this because he cares about the Tour, as if his rivals didn't care.

Indurain only cared about the Tour in his own words, but he did two years of Giro-Tour.
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Armstrong raced way, way more than Vingegaard. It's not even comparable. It's a bit of an urban myth in cycling discussions because whilst yes he focused everything on the TdF so his results elsewhere were just 'placeholders' basically and spinning his wheels but take the 2001 season for example (L.A.'s prime, basically), i.e. he had around 30 race days in his legs before the Tour that year. Vingegaard meanwhile between the TdF 2024 and the TdF 2025 (aka a full year) will have done the following: DNF'd San Sebastian, won the Tour of Poland, won Algarve, DNF'd Paris-Nice and raced the Dauphiné.

I mean he's literally barely racing. And that's without injuries as well (over that period there's only been the PN concussion situation).
 
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veganrob said:
Yeah. Is he really so fragile physically and emotionally that's all he can do?
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I think he doesn't love cycling, I get the impression he looks to professional cycling as a job and only cares about his biggest goal (Tour de France). His crash had a huge impact on his mental health, probably thinks the danger of cycling is not worth it anymore (the glory of winning races is not enough compared to the risk of losing his family), specially if you are risking your life on a descent.
 
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1915307566189404455
View: https://x.com/vismaleaseabike/status/1915307566189404455

“The focus is now fully on the Tour de France. The preparations for this race have truly begun. I no longer have any issues from the concussion I sustained earlier, or any other physical problems. It was really unfortunate that I couldn’t finish Paris-Nice and also had to miss the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya. But now I’m training without any problems and will soon head to the altitude camp.”

Unclear for how long his crash bothered him, but I still think that he has been fine for weeks and that this is merely to say that at the start of the planned build-up, there are no excuses for summer.
 
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