Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

[Jagartrott]

Well she is not just his wife she is his manager too. As a manager hence we can assume she demanded fully dedicated GT GC team support. Now i can't blame her for that.

That's a very superficial take. We've seen in the past that Van Aert can both successfully chase victories *and* be an amazing teammate. He was a big factor in Vingegaard's 2022 win especially. To disregard this is very disrespectful from a manager's point of view. You're passively-aggressive targeting someone who had a big hand in your client's career and thus salary. 'Demanding' fully dedicated GT GC support is the best way to actually lower the teammates' desire to ride for your client, *especially* in combination with her complaining about altitude camps. Guess what? All those teammates also do those camps and they all ride more races than Mr. Vingegaard.

It was an extremely entitled and tone-deaf interview. As well as an extremely dumb one.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Easy now.

No, this is definitely nutcase behaviour. Critisizing how Visma treats Jonas and critisizing their strategic choices(and therefore critisizing WVA) AT THIS POINT OF THE YEAR is just a complete whacko move. Commentators, experts, Wout and especially Niermann is scared to say how they really feel about this interview because it could get them in trouble. We sit on a forum, so we can say what we want and how we feel about certain things, and this is just so out of line and so tonedeaf that I don't even have words for it!

She should be way better than this. As his wife and his manager. Bad, bad move. Certainly won't get goodwill from anyone.

 

[Peyroteo94]

I would love to be a fly to see Visma's dinner with Jonas, his teammates and staff.
And I have another reason to not miss all mountain stages, his wife will be there next to Visma guys. Bring me some popcorn!

 

[CyclistAbi]

Then again and lets be honest who doesn't criticise Wout? It's a sport in itself.

@Jagartrott

I know, i even defended the approach on where Rogla was the leader, Wout is like a racing car, he needs those mileage. In that time other riders, like Sepp, much emphasise was put on their contribution, on where nowadays it's pretty much about Jonas, others should give up the spotlight and ambitions. Now from Jonas manager point of view i can't blame it. From on how it used to be, well it's different.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I would love to be a fly to see Visma's dinner with Jonas, his teammates and staff.
And I have another reason to not miss all mountain stages, his wife will be there next to Visma guys. Bring me some popcorn!

Before I thought that Grischa decided tactics for crucial stages but now I'm not so sure...

 

[theyoungest]

No, this is definitely nutcase behaviour. Critisizing how Visma treats Jonas and critisizing their strategic choices(and therefore critisizing WVA) AT THIS POINT OF THE YEAR is just a complete whacko move. Commentators, experts, Wout and especially Niermann is scared to say how they really feel about this interview because it could get them in trouble. We sit on a forum, so we can say what we want and how we feel about certain things, and this is just so out of line and so tonedeaf that I don't even have words for it!

She should be way better than this. As his wife and his manager. Bad, bad move. Certainly won't get goodwill from anyone.

It's still just a wife expressing some concerns about her husband's employer. Yes, she seems a bit peculiar and her timing is, well, interesting to say the least, but 'nutcase' is way too strong of a word. It just happens to be the Tour de France where everything gets blown way out of proportion. In a sport which lacks outspoken characters everyone who says anything remotely interesting immediately becomes front page news.

 

[YavorD]

I would love to be a fly to see Visma's dinner with Jonas, his teammates and staff.
And I have another reason to not miss all mountain stages, his wife will be there next to Visma guys. Bring me some popcorn!

Imagine the rant if he doesn't win the Tour.
"You send him to altitude camps so often and it's not even helpful to win the Tour?! I wonder what's the purpose of this then or are you a bunch of amateurs??"

Is she gonna be the Danish mou?

 

[Mayomaniac]

Imagine the rant if he doesn't win the Tour.
"You send him to altitude camps so often and it's not even helpful to win the Tour?! I wonder what's the purpose of this then or are you a bunch of amateurs??"

Is she gonna be the Danish mou?

Or Couldhound 2.0?

 

[Rackham]

It's still just a wife expressing some concerns about her husband's employer. Yes, she seems a bit peculiar and her timing is, well, interesting to say the least, but 'nutcase' is way too strong of a word. It just happens to be the Tour de France where everything gets blown way out of proportion. In a sport which lacks outspoken characters everyone who says anything remotely interesting immediately becomes front page news.

It's a lost battle. The roasting online is a sentient beast, as always. The cat is out of the bag now and she's become meme-worthy.

The proverbial genie cannot be put back in the bottle. For example the whole Froome-dog thing is still going 13 years later and will never stop, even in retirement.

 

[theyoungest]

It's a lost battle. The roasting online is a sentient beast, as always. The cat is out of the bag now and she's become meme-worthy.

The proverbial genie cannot be put back in the bottle. For example the whole Froome-dog thing is still going 13 years later and will never stop, even in retirement.

I seem to remember Froome's wife did quite a bit more than one ill-timed interview. And even she is more or less forgotten now. The meme-worthiness of Froome is not because of his wife...

 

[slim charles]

She's an evil witch. She made some stupid remarks during the Visms 1-2-3 Vuelta also that showed her true colors. It's sociopath behavior.

It's good that you are taking all this very calmly and definitely not being over the top about the situation

 

[Rackham]

I seem to remember Froome's wife did quite a bit more than one ill-timed interview. And even she is more or less forgotten now. The meme-worthiness of Froome is not because of his wife...

Van Aert has responded in any case: https://sporza.be/nl/2025/07/07/wou...n-prestaties-spreken-voor-zich~1751877111345/

And when one of her husband's teammates is pretty much forced to respond, you know for a fact it's gone too far and she made a huge mistake.

 

[KOM]

No, this is definitely nutcase behaviour. Critisizing how Visma treats Jonas and critisizing their strategic choices(and therefore critisizing WVA) AT THIS POINT OF THE YEAR is just a complete whacko move. Commentators, experts, Wout and especially Niermann is scared to say how they really feel about this interview because it could get them in trouble. We sit on a forum, so we can say what we want and how we feel about certain things, and this is just so out of line and so tonedeaf that I don't even have words for it!

She should be way better than this. As his wife and his manager. Bad, bad move. Certainly won't get goodwill from anyone.

My favorite was the part about the kitchen cause "equality" typical brainwashed and rotten 2025 talking point, i wonder how many hours she did on the bike that week and if she came close to jonas' presumably 30-40.... and no that doesnt mean im downplaying that shes probably raising kids etc. just the sheer audacity of white middle aged multimillionaire wives truely is something else, living 99,9999 percentile lives and manage to not feel epically privileged doing so

 

[slim charles]

I mean, the fact that she wants him to do more dishes or whatever is fine. Probably not something anyone cares enough about to put in an interview but whatever, she gets to think that, being one half of that marriage .
Obviously the issue is complaining about team strategy, feels very weird to stir things up at any point, especially before or during the race.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Oh, I thought it was from January. Thanks and sorry (to you too @Froome )

No worries mate.

 

[Red Rick]

Tis really a big storm in a bottle of water

 

[Cookster15]

Sounds like not being Jonas's manager might be the best thing for all. But I suspect Jonas likes it that way. Who are we to judge.

...... back to the Tour de France.

 

[theyoungest]

Van Aert has responded in any case: https://sporza.be/nl/2025/07/07/wou...n-prestaties-spreken-voor-zich~1751877111345/

And when one of her husband's teammates is pretty much forced to respond, you know for a fact it's gone too far and she made a huge mistake.

That's Belgium, anything involving Van Aert or Evenepoel is huge, and certainly if someone dares to criticize either of them (which she didn't really do, but anyway). I think 4 out of the 5 most read articles on the Sporza website were about Vingo's wife today...

I think it's quite funny that usually it's the Belgian media and fans complaining that his teammates don't do enough for Van Aert... and now it's the other way around.

 

[Jagartrott]

Of course she complained about Van Aert in particular. Who do you think she was talking about? Passive aggressive entitlement all the way.

 

[Sciatic]

Of course she complained about Van Aert in particular. Who do you think she was talking about? Passive aggressive entitlement all the way.

Obviously she was referring to Benoot getting in a successful break and getting too much attention

 

[Gratemans]

I just saw Wout reacting to the whole saga in front of the Wielerflits camera and his answer is really quite smart. He makes it very clear he disagrees, mentions the team always goes for different goals, often succesfully. Then he quickly says "Jonas knows this as well, and it's completely not a thing between us" (suggesting Jonas in fact doesn't agree either).
Then he ends on "it's a shame it got published like that". Leaving room for it being taken out of context.

All in all, a pretty smart response I didn't really expect of him to be honest. Would have been easier to go 'I don't wanna respond to any of this'. Which would have been understandeable as well, him being in the middle of cycling a Tour and all.

 

[veganrob]

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[Kedjan]

A good performance again by Vinge. Quite impressed he managed to follow Pog as well as he did, few has managed to do that in recent time (Sure, Vinge himself on San Luca).

I have a feeling he will do well tomorrow.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

A good performance again by Vinge. Quite impressed he managed to follow Pog as well as he did, few has managed to do that in recent time (Sure, Vinge himself on San Luca).

I have a feeling he will do well tomorrow.

It's not the first time that Vingo shows how good he is even on short (but steep) climbs. He could do really well in Liege and maybe even in Fleche Walonne methinks.

 

[SHAD0W93]

A good performance again by Vinge. Quite impressed he managed to follow Pog as well as he did, few has managed to do that in recent time (Sure, Vinge himself on San Luca).

I have a feeling he will do well tomorrow.

Vingegaard will have a great TT, he’s been TTing very well this year. The issue is the mountains and he showed again he’s having issues matching Pogacar’s acceleration.