Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

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Somehow I have difficulty imagining Vingegaard riding the Vuelta in August/September and then two weeks later riding the Worlds in Rwanda of all places (aka beaucoup travel away from home).

The same applies to Pog as well, actually.

Yup. I don't believe Vingo will ride WC after a double of GTs. Family time is a keyword here (unless he skips Vuelta).
As for Pogi, I think he will actually skip Vuelta to fully focus on WC defence (he's a big favourite). He's already had a spring full of objectives and adding GT double + WC is too much.
 
Somehow I have difficulty imagining Vingegaard riding the Vuelta in August/September and then two weeks later riding the Worlds in Rwanda of all places (aka beaucoup travel away from home).

The same applies to Pog as well, actually.
He will not skip Vuelta just to do one day race in late september.

He will do the Tour-Vuelta and WC. That's why he didn't raced that much this year.
 
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Going for the Froome/Chicken level conditioning it looks like

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I remember walking around for a bit around sub-10% bf when I was a lot younger and stupider and felt like I was on deaths door, this guy can't be much over 5 and he's not even proper race ready yet, how they can even turn the pedals looking like that I've no idea.
 
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Going for the Froome/Chicken level conditioning it looks like

GrPwoVBXQAAt3oU


I remember walking around for a bit around sub-10% bf when I was a lot younger and stupider and felt like I was on deaths door, this guy can't be much over 5 and he's not even proper race ready yet, how they can even turn the pedals looking like that I've no idea.
You can see more flesh on a fish tossed into a piranha tank!
 
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Going for the Froome/Chicken level conditioning it looks like

GrPwoVBXQAAt3oU


I remember walking around for a bit around sub-10% bf when I was a lot younger and stupider and felt like I was on deaths door, this guy can't be much over 5 and he's not even proper race ready yet, how they can even turn the pedals looking like that I've no idea.

Impressive muscle mass!

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Don't be fooled by the shadows though. They fall in weird places making it look even more extreme than it is. (Not that it isn't extreme already but shadows make it look even worse). Love his shoulder line! I have a weird thing for shoulders like that!
Angle is so weird man, he looks like he can just stand straight up and touch his knees with this hand without leaning over.
 
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Apparently, he was only able to stay awake for an hour the days after the crash. On the Monday after the crash (which must have been on Thursday, if I remember correctly), he rode his bike for an hour but got so dizzy that he didn't touch the bike until the following weekend.

I guess I can understand why Catalunya was off the table. But I don't know why such things couldn't be communicated at the time and only need to come out two months later.
 
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Apparently, he was only able to stay awake for an hour the days after the crash. On the Monday after the crash (which must have been on Thursday, if I remember correctly), he rode his bike for an hour but got so dizzy that he didn't touch the bike until the following weekend.

I guess I can understand why Catalunya was off the table. But I don't know why such things couldn't be communicated at the time and only need to come out two months later.
From the interview it seems like the team didn't even bother to test him for concussion, vingegard blames the race doctor for not checking him at all, but the team also has a responsibility for this. Totally amateur from visma.

Bizarre the way they treated him in a race which wasnt even a big goal for him, they just sent him up the mountain when hes dizzy and can't brake properly
 
From the interview it seems like the team didn't even bother to test him for concussion, vingegard blames the race doctor for not checking him at all, but the team also has a responsibility for this. Totally amateur from visma.

Bizarre the way they treated him in a race which wasnt even a big goal for him, they just sent him up the mountain when hes dizzy and can't brake properly
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The concussion protocol in cycling will always be an issue (or at least until they introduce a force-measuring mechanism in the helmets). You can‘t do a concussion check without the rider losing time. If you pass concussion protocol but are five minutes down, it‘s just as bad as failing a concussion protocol: Your race is done anyway. In team sports and other spots that are not racing sports, concussion checks are no problem, but in cycling you can‘t just switch your rider back in after he has been examined.
 
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