AWARDS: Jonas Vingegaard's Tour de France time-trial voted CyclingUpToDate Individual Performance of the Year!
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Thanks to your votes, Jonas Vingegaard's incredible individual time-trial on stage 16. One of the great performances of the Dane's career, it's fair to say a more than worthy winner.
The battle for the award was incredibly close however. 799 voters in total pledged their support to the rider of their choice with just 23 votes separating the winner Vingegaard and runner-up, Primoz Roglic's stage 20 time-trial that gave him victory at the Giro d'Italia.
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In total, 35.79 percent of the votes went to Vingegaard with Roglic securing himself 32.92 percent. With the award being incredibly closely fought, Tadej Pogacar narrowly finished in third thanks to his epic victory at the Tour of Flanders, beating out Mathieu van der Poel's World Championship victory by just 1.12 percent (9 votes).
Just one of a number of standout performances from Vingegaard en route to his second successive Maillot Jaune victory, the Jumbo-Visma's time-trial on stage 16 will live long in the memory. Not someone renowned as a specialist in the discipline, his dominant performance was something truly special. With the Dane in yet another nip-and-tuck battle for yellow with Tadej Pogacar, most so-called experts actually expected Vingegaard to lose time on this day. Instead, he completely obliterated the field, Pogacar included.
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- Based on what argument?Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Agreed except the length of climbs, pretty sure you can stretch that to about a km unless we’re talking about half a dozen in quick succession.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Lot of contradictory information floating around world cup contenders, someone should do some tidying up.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- A bit much to suggest that Pogacar is better than MvdP on most terrains. The only terrain Pogacar is clearly better is long climbs, on any other terrain they are pretty even except flat cobbles and short and steep climbs (max a few 100 mtrs) where MvdP is clearly better than Pogacar.Velovibes21-12-2024
- The likelihood of RE improving enough at this point to outclass TP or JV is less than zero.verve82521-12-2024
- That’s the most stupid thing I’ve read for a long time, did you not go to school and learn even the most basic physics? Aero depends on one thing only, drag, drag depends speed and the relationship is squared and apart from maybe at zero or the speed of sound or due to side winds that relationship is valid at all speeds, it dies not “suddenly” start at a magic number. Very simply, the faster you go the more the effect becomes important. If you think 25km/h is needed to have noticeable effects you’re delusional, athletic WR are cancelled as soon as winds top 2m/s that’s 7.2km/h, why because the assistance is already too important at that speed and the times prove it. You don’t even consider wind which can significantly increase the effective speed for aerodynamics and you underestimate speed of climbs, 6% is ridden more at 30 than 25km/h, a speed at which early generation high rims were considered to have more advantages than disadvantages. And finally, as in normal races you can’t just switch bikes according to terrain, it’s pretty pointless to discuss climbs as a separate situation, the aero will have justified itself plenty during the rest of the ride.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- If you look at how much TP progressed in that 1 1/2 years you can no longer say that’s nothing. If Remco improves as much he’s a challenger!Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Froome wishing to ride the Vuelta...he won't even be selected for the team!frieders320-12-2024
- Keep telling yourself that Remco but you not only have Tadeg to beat but Jonas!frieders320-12-2024
- Seems farfetched - I agree. Mas has beaten him once. Giro d'Emillia I think - 2022mobk20-12-2024