"I hope I can immediately compete for the overall win" - Jonas Vingegaard ready to battle Primoz Roglic in the Algarve
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Jonas Vingegaard has last competed in August 2024. After a 2024 season marked by a very bad crash at Itzulia Basque Country, all of his physical and mental efforts were devoted to the Tour de France where he went on to finish second. He ended his season early to be with his wife as they welcomed their second child, and after a long winter in the sidelines the Dane is now looking forward to fight for wins once again.
Vingegaard will begin his 2025 season at the Volta ao Algarve. “This will be my first participation in the Volta ao Algarve, which definitely adds extra motivation. I hope I can immediately compete for the overall win, although I primarily see the race as preparation for my bigger goals later in the season," the Dane said in a press release.
A rider of such tremendous quality, it should not be doubted that Vingegaard will be amongst the best in the race and is a clear contender for overall victory. The presence of his former teammate Primoz Roglic will make for an exciting first battle of the year between two of the so-called 'big 4' overall classification specialists, a battle that will take place over the summit finish to the Alto da Fóia and the final 19-kilometer long time-trial which ends atop the Alto do Malhão.
Visma will go to Portugal with a very strong lineup, truly a block that is capable of taking a yellow jersey back to the Netherlands. "It’s great to be surrounded by such a strong team right from the start, with Wout, Sepp Kuss, Tiesj Benoot, Wilco Kelderman, and Loe van Belle. I’m excited to pin on a race number again.”
Besides Roglic, Vingegaard should have other rivals next week in the likes of João Almeida, Filippo Ganna and Stefan Küng - all specialists in the decisive final stage against the clock.
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I think Roglic might have a chance to win overall, TT is better for him, if he can stay close enough on Foia he can win there because stages 1, 3 and 4 should be (reduced bunch) sprints
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- Raymond Poulidor, Alfredo Binda.... where do we stop. If you want to retitle it is Primoz Roglic the bestr rider never to win the tour in the last ten or 20 years then that might be betterslappers6631-03-2025
- Let me help you. Alfredo BindaUpHill31-03-2025
- He'll certainly last it and prob ride his own race, at the front 😁
leedorney31-03-2025 - Gaio Primus Caesar Roglus, Rome is waiting for you, Imperator :-)).
maria2024202431-03-2025 - And he probably wasn’t even at the limit ;-) Have to wonder how much Mads could catch up if he’d tune his physique to be as sharp as MVDPs’Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Respect for giving Van Eetvelt credit there.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- He’s already a star for me for HAVING complained about it, the recent trend having been, let them then try to take advantage by making them sign NDAs ;-)Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Agreed, but if it was a radio thing then all the riders should have the same story and it would be easy to call anyone out. Kind of surprised this isn’t cleared up half officially afterwards, just like the Alaphilippe divorce, seems like once something spreads on the net it kind of gets accepted that everyone wants to have their own truth so no-one bothers to contest anything that’s verifiable anymore, we all just move on.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- maybe. what makes that a LITTLE fishy is that they suddenly hit the gas and started hammering it. even mathieu, who i’ve never heard complain about ANYTHING (other than teenage girls waking him up and being spit on by belgians) was pretty hacked off about the race tactics after the split. i think he was upset for what his teammates had to do, not for the fact he ended up isolated as a result.OCexile31-03-2025
- It seems that in E3 it wasn’t legit to criticise teams that « took advantage » because there was no radio communication about the incident so they couldn’t know to slow down. Only one source so far but should be quite easy to verify.Mistermaumau31-03-2025