Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

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After suffering from - amongst other injuries - pneumothorax in Pays Basque, it‘s almost a miracle that Vingegaard is so strong in the Tour; also today. I feared he perhaps would never come back extremely strong.

His Tour preparation clearly suffered. Otherwise, he would climb with Pogacar until the finish line.

He‘ll probably finish the Tour in 2nd spot, and will be really strong at the Vuelta.
 
What i heard Jonas say is that it was his best performance on a bike

I didnt hear him say anything about numbers

Performance could mean in relation to his crash and return

Also Pog did say he was on the limit at one stage until Vinge stood up and weakend then he attacked

WRONG.

Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard both did the best and second-best climbing performance of all time on the Plateau de Beille climb, making this the greatest climbing stage of all time.


" Pogačar did 6.98 ᵉW/Kg for 39:50 min, which is by far the greatest climbing performance ever, taking into account conditions and the stage difficulty. Sea normalised power for this historic effort is 7.27 ᵉW/Kg. Pogačar’s adjusted altitude score was 696, which means this performance was equivalent to pushing 6.96 ᵉW/Kg for 60 minutes at sea level. Jonas Vingegaard, despite losing 68 seconds did the second-greatest climbing performance of all time. The Dane did 6.85 ᵉW/Kg for 40:58 min. His altitude score was the second highest in history with 685. Until today, Marco Pantani’s Alpe d’Huez in 1997 was the best in history. "

 
After suffering from - amongst other injuries - pneumothorax in Pays Basque, it‘s almost a miracle that Vingegaard is so strong in the Tour; also today. I feared he perhaps would never come back extremely strong.

His Tour preparation clearly suffered. Otherwise, he would climb with Pogacar until the finish line.

He‘ll probably finish the Tour in 2nd spot, and will be really strong at the Vuelta.


Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard both did the best and second-best climbing performance of all time on the Plateau de Beille climb, making this the greatest climbing stage of all time.


Pogačar did 6.98 ᵉW/Kg for 39:50 min, which is by far the greatest climbing performance ever,
taking into account conditions and the stage difficulty. Sea normalised power for this historic effort is 7.27 ᵉW/Kg. Pogačar’s adjusted altitude score was 696, which means this performance was equivalent to pushing 6.96 ᵉW/Kg for 60 minutes at sea level. Jonas Vingegaard, despite losing 68 seconds did the second-greatest climbing performance of all time.
 
I know Jonas is a family man and all, but I thought his job was to win bike races for Visma. If he doesn't do the Vuelta, then theres basically nothing else to do the rest of the season for him? Maybe Worlds and Lombardia, but c'mon, thats usually not really his cup of tea.

What would have happened if Trine was expecting during the Tour?

I assume they've tried to schedule it to not interfere (too much) with the Tour.
It has sounded like he wants to ride Worlds, but I don't know if that's still a goal.
 
And definitely great ride today. No regrets, he did all he could. JV and Vingo executed their plan, the attack was devastating to everybody but one.
And important to note: Jorgenson accelerated and only Pogacar was there. I've said this elsewhere but, after taking 3 minutes out of the break by himself on one climb to be able to launch like that is unreal. Given the chance to not be the tractor for this last week we could be talking about him in the same frame with Pogacar. Jonas should pay attention to that.
 
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