Former teammate finds similarities between Lance Armstrong and Jonas Vingegaard: " A smart strategy, if you ask me"
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Jonas Vingegaard clinched his first victory of the 2025 season on Sunday, winning the Volta ao Algarve with a commanding performance. However, his triumph was far from guaranteed until the final stage, where his exceptional time trial skills proved decisive in securing the overall title.
Vingegaard has increasingly established himself as a time trial specialist, with his dominant display in the discipline at the 2023 Tour de France playing a crucial role in his overall victory. His crushing margin of 1 minute 48 seconds over Tadej Pogacar on Stage 16’s time trial was a defining moment of the race, and one of the most empathetic victories anyone has ever taken over the current world champion.
Former professional cyclist Tom Danielson, who rode for Discovery Channel alongside Lance Armstrong in 2005, has drawn comparisons between the Danish rider and the seven-time Tour de France winner. Writing on X, Danielson shared his thoughts on Vingegaard’s impressive display in the Algarve time trial.
"It was great to see Vingegaard ride so strongly to win the time trial and take the overall classification," Danielson wrote.
He went on to compare Vingegaard’s time trial technique to Armstrong’s, noting key similarities in their approach.
"I have to say he looks like a miniature Lance Armstrong on the time trial bike with his position, body and style. His cadence also seemed excellent: quite high and adapting well to the terrain changes (and there were many!)."
Vingegaard’s victory in Portugal comes at a time when his main rival, Tadej Pogačar, is focusing on the spring classics rather than early-season stage races. Danielson believes that the Danish rider’s investment in refining his time trial abilities could be a key strategic advantage as the season progresses.
"This performance from Vingegaard in the time trial shows that – although he is far from 100 percent – he has put a lot of work into improving his time trial. A smart strategy, if you ask me. Especially on paper, since Tadej Pogacar is focusing on the classics in the first part of the season."
Similarity between these two - Lance the Doper and Jonas ? ! Tommy the Doper and Lance the Doper have similarities!
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- This from the man that almost destroyed the “essence” of cycling.Djs01-04-2025
- Regarding one point in the article: Vingegaard and Pogacar raced against each other at Monuments in the past - Il Lombardia and Liege, from 2020 to 2022. Pogacar's results are 3, 1, 1, and 1, while Vingegaard's are 84, 28, 14, and 16, respectively in the same races. But Vingegaard hasn't raced a Monument since 2022.RidesHills01-04-2025
- What, no Jay, Jonas. Remco, Primoz, etc.? Hope Cras doesn’t need an H this year.Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- Interesting, now’s the chance for all those who were grumpy about or against paying for subscriptions. But, if the pay is half decent one of girls from the women’s peloton might beat you to it ;-)Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- In those days the Tour was like Paris-Roubaix 3 weeks running :-)tMistermaumau01-04-2025
- The Dutch are a popular sporting target for foreign criticismMistermaumau01-04-2025
- Completely agree, and that’s in cases where the team even reaches the rider before he/she decides to get up by themself and start chasing. No protocol or rule will solve this perfectly, this is not a sport with a referee putting everything on hold whilst checks are made.Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- Is it just me or are the opinions of retired pros from certain parts of Northern Europe becoming increasingly Pythonesque? “In our day we had sandpaper chamois and barbed wire for bar tape when we rode Paris Roubaix, it used to be a proper race”……..I’m not even that big a Pogacar fan and I hope he does it just to shut them up.Jezla01-04-2025
- True, but then we've always known that real safety isn’t an objective, just enough for the facade not to crumble.Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- Oh, this sounds more spicy than I thought. I didn't watch the event.
KerisVroom01-04-2025