AWARDS: Jonas Vingegaard's Tour de France time-trial voted CyclingUpToDate Individual Performance of the Year!
CyclingSunday, 26 November 2023 at 19:00
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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- I counted 16 riders under 24 out of 43 that started. Once was only 16 ! Two of the top riders are Zoe and Schreiber and both under 23 yet that have done 50 min races in the past with the elites so I think it's just bad clock management. Let them race 50 freakin' minutes! One more lap could have made a big dffierence most times in the podium and winner.frieders319-11-2024
- He needs to finish out his contract and then go hit MTB and Cross/Gravel really hard, that's where his heart is.awp18-11-2024
- Pidcock is starting to sound like Froome now.Sweep18-11-2024
- I think this was because there were junior women in the race. If a race has junior women am pretty sure it has to be less than 45 minutes. I believe a rule is coming in for next season that will fine organisers that don't put on a junior women's race a fine equivalent to the prize money. So fingers crossed we should see more longer elite and junior women's races from next season.NorrisHippocampe18-11-2024
- Of course he CAN. Big salary in cycling is not when you win but when they talk about you (and your team / sponsors). For every news about Jonas, MVdP or Wout there are 10 times more(!) news about Pidcock (like everyday for last 2 months?). Since cycling is advertising sport not competitive sport (in terms of from money comes from) Pidcock is winner and GOAT - change my mind. ;-)averagecyclist18-11-2024
- Why do the women CXs keep getting short changed with the length of theor races? They could have easily done another lap to put them at 50 minutes which is their time limit. Yet another CX race where they fail to reach this when they had a chance to. Come on ... the math isn't that hard to figure out lap times and divide into 50 min!frieders318-11-2024
- All pro cyclists are massively underpaid! The amount of riding and physical exertion they put their bodies through is crazy compared to other sports. I can't think of any other sport where you are physically active at a very high level of power output for hours on end each day.Pogboom17-11-2024
- When I was working for Starkist/Heinz my manager quit. So the next week my group was put under another manager. During our first meeting he asked if there was anything we needed to tell him. I said that I would be out the following week on vacation. He said "I don't know if I can let you go on vacation". I replied, "You can't tell if I can go. You can only tell me if I can come back".Sweep17-11-2024
- :-)Sweep17-11-2024
- What a mess there :-)
DareDevil17-11-2024