Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

[Pozzovivo]

I'm sure UAE also believed Pogi could win San Sebastian in 2022. It's a hard race, unless your name nearly almost rhymes with Scarecrow Swimming Pool.

Charlotte Kool? No way she could win San Sebastian.

 

[noob]

My fat a$$ would pick the cake every time.


Vingegaard still going with the sleeveless top. I wonder what they’ll say the purpose is.

Obviously showing off his gorgeous shoulders!
Or ventilation?

 

[SHAD0W93]

Obviously showing off his gorgeous shoulders!
Or ventilation?

But if it’s ventilation he won’t get that benefit during a race so why do it now? Same thing with not wearing the darker jersey they’re going to wear at the Tour de France unless he believes he’ll mostly be in yellow.

 

[Froome]

I think Jonas did a good Dauphine, even compared to expectations. The level was extremely high. When was the last time he competed at such a high level? Probably TDF24. I believe it will help him tremendously.
Just the peloton skills themselves...Take stage 6 for example: Just as Sivakov was emptying himself before pulling off, Jonas was out of position and had to make a big effort to move up. That cost him , cause he had no time to recover. Then he made the mistake (not really, cause you want to see where you are) of going too deep and it caused a complete explosion which resulted in a 1 min gap.

Visma and UAE are taking different approaches, So I wouldn't draw too much from the Dauphine, at least regarding the differences between them. The battle ground is the TDF, always has been. Don't forget Tadej killed him in TA22 and PN23 only to lose the Tour on both occasions. It doesn't mean it's gonna happen again, just that these 1 week races are a totally different ball game. Of course Tadej is stronger in those races, he always has been. He is the stronger rider overall, again no surprise there. But the Tour is so much more difficult, this is where Jonas can compensate and has shown it in the past.

I don't think we've seen the best of Jonas yet, he'll probably increase his level further during the next few weeks. This plus the very strong team gives me every reason to be optimistic.

He did the Dauphiné after not doing any race since March. He was recovering from a concussion.

It was a setback who will not affect him in the Tour, but didn't let him come to the Dauphiné in a condition where he sustains the condition and don't get easily tired.

The ITT is a short effort and he was good.

In the mountains he suffered a bit more due to the lack of racing, but people don't see he was the guy who improved more between the stage of Combloux and the stage of Valmonier. The gap was going to be small in a longer effort compared to Combloux, and i know the real gap wasn't 14 seconds.

The Dauphiné is what he needed before the last altitude training camp and the Tour.

Dauphiné is just preparation, and as we saw many times in history, is not that important for what will happens in the Tour.