Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Mountain Sprinter

[Krzysztof_O]

Only reason I see is you wanna get a certain # of training and race days in for the rest of the year to not lose anything for 2025 and they prefer to do that in August before the kid is born.

Exactly. Maybe they planned an early season end already before the crash. Therefore those August races here. Maybe I should go to the mountains again to see Vingo crushing climbs in my country! Too bad it's far away.

 

[RedheadDane]

'A bigger result than winning': Jonas Vingegaard hails second place at the Tour de France

It turns out second place is not always 'first loser'

www.cyclingweekly.com

He even managed a touch of black humour when asked about what he might do to return even better to beat Pogačar next time round. There was a big step to be made in his preparation, he said, adding that said 'big step' was not to break every bone in the right side of his upper body and puncture both lungs.

You know what, Jonas? That sounds like an excellent plan!

 

[Valv.Piti]

Such a shame that it wouldnt be a schedule of Vuelta, Worlds and Lombardia. San Sebastian is a nice race, but who the *** cares about Tour of Poland?

 

[AmRacer]

Such a shame that it wouldnt be a schedule of Vuelta, Worlds and Lombardia. San Sebastian is a nice race, but who the *** cares about Tour of Poland?

Jonas racing Classica San Remco. Could be fun if Remco does it again.

 

[Berniece]

20/21

Indeed 20 of the 21 days Vingegaard was better, which is actually also not true. He was worse during the first TT and again to Superdévoluy

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Such a shame that it wouldnt be a schedule of Vuelta, Worlds and Lombardia. San Sebastian is a nice race, but who the *** cares about Tour of Poland?

We'll see what kind of shape he shows up in, but after his meltdown in Poland five years ago, he might still want to win the race.

 

[velaso montador]

Haha wait? Did I miss this? Was it gravel stage?

So Pogacar just not only manhandled Vingegaard on the road he also did it publicly in media?
Poor guy even Evenpoel aswell. Talk about getting put in your place.

Tadej Pogacar not having it with Jonas Vingegaard's Tour tactics: "Intelligent racing or not, it’s nonsense"

The psychological fight for the Tour de France win is full on. Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard are typically very friendly and respectful of each other, having battled for now three consecutive Tou...

cyclinguptodate.com

 

[Rou]

I can't believe that Jonas would go to Tour of Pologne instead of Vuelta. Come on Ving, go crush Rogla and the peasants in Spain!

 

[RedheadDane]

I can't believe that Jonas would go to Tour of Pologne instead of Vuelta. Come on Ving, go crush Rogla and the peasants in Spain!

He's gotta start training the new generation!

 

[RobertCrawley]

Maybe not mates, but good competitors.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Didn't win, but life is good.

 

[mariosommelier]

I can't believe that Jonas would go to Tour of Pologne instead of Vuelta. Come on Ving, go crush Rogla and the peasants in Spain!

He knows the winter is coming, oh sorry Pog lmao

That's why he will avoid the Vuelta, afraid to get spanked again.

 

[Rackham]

It does seem like a missed opportunity to skip the Vuelta.

Normally he'd win with one leg, i.e. judging by his performance in the Tour.

 

[Valv.Piti]

We'll see what kind of shape he shows up in, but after his meltdown in Poland five years ago, he might still want to win the race.

Really? Tour of freaking Poland? Thats not a race that you really regret not having won, but I guess its the only race that makes sense when she's expecting when the Vuelta rolls around.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Really? Tour of freaking Poland? Thats not a race that you really regret not having won, but I guess its the only race that makes sense when she's expecting when the Vuelta rolls around.

He could also ride in Denmark that week, but the route in Poland obviously suits him better.

 

[yaco]

He could also ride in Denmark that week, but the route in Poland obviously suits him better.

If it is the same as last year's route its far from ideal. A few teams got caught out last year taking GC riders instead of puncheurs.

 

[Lequack]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1815139411732107472

View: https://x.com/vismaleaseabike/status/1815139411732107472

 

[Cookster15]

Maybe not mates, but good competitors.

I think Vinge and Pog have always enjoyed mutual respect - no animosity. Since the Tour finished I note some gracious posts towards Pog’s victory on X from Visma - example above from @Lequack. That is refreshing after the team seemed overly confident that Pog would crack on PdB. That confidence was in turn a continuation of what the team believed after what had worked against Pogacar in 2022 and 2023.

But clearly Visma underestimated Pogacar’s potential level this year after what was a soft Giro and similarly over estimated Vingegaard’s abilities so soon after he was recovering from his Tour of Basque Country injuries suffered on April 4. Jonas didn’t fail, his performance was quite heroic knowing what he was coming back from.

Bring on 2025 for the next rematch.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Congratulations on finishing second at the Tour despite all the difficulties involved.

 

[Oldermanish]

Maybe not mates, but good competitors.

Neither could be deemed as great without the other.

 

[iBanesto]

Maybe not mates, but good competitors.

 

[hfgon1]

He will ride San Sebastian tomorrow. Will be interesting to see how he is doing there.

 

[scribers]

Oh heck. Was he a late entry? I hadn’t seen it discussed before. Makes the race a lottle more interesting

 

[Rob5091]

Yep, Vingegaard doing San Sebastian. Now if Big Mads can only get him to the Worlds ...
https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...clasica-san-sebastian-together-with-sepp-kuss

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Oh heck. Was he a late entry? I hadn’t seen it discussed before. Makes the race a lottle more interesting

San Sebastián and Tour de Pologne were the races he would definitely ride, according to an interview he did after the last stage in Nice.