"I should have given chase. Sorry" - Jonas Vingegaard's apology to Wout van Aert shown in Visma's new All-In documentary from Tour de France 2023
CyclingFriday, 15 March 2024 at 11:01
Although everything ended well for the then Jumbo-Visma at the 2023 Tour de France, there was some early drama as a visibly frustrated Wout van Aert narrowly missed out on the stage win to solo attacker, Victor Lafay.
Post-stage there was some heavy criticism of Visma with some claiming that a pull from Jonas Vingegaard could have made the difference and that given everything van Aert has done for the Dane, it would have been the least he deserved. Now, in the new documentary, dropping on Amazon Prime on March 16th, the aftermath of the incident is shown in a whole new light.
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"How is that possible?!" bellows van Aert as he storms onto the team bus, throwing his water bottle away in frustration. Shortly afterwards, Vingegaard is seen attempting to calm things down as he issues and apology to the Belgian. "I should have given chase. Sorry."
"I want to apologize for getting angry. I wasn't angry at anyone or the way we rode. I was just disappointed. You have to understand that I have already missed out a few times this year. It doesn't seem to be quite right," van Aert reflected the following day with a calmer head. "I don't blame Jonas at all. I thought it was a shame that my disappointment after the race was immediately linked to the fact that I was supposedly angry with Jonas."
As mentioned, in the days after this incident there was much criticism of Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma's use of van Aert, something that didn't go unnoticed. "This is always part of the Tour de France. The media tries to look for problems that do not exist," Vingegaard says in the documentary about the incident.
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Why still regretting your mistakes last year at TDF? The 2023 race is over already, don't you?
He’s absolutely right about the media and it coincides with what I said about the (any) documentary never being able to tell a whole or objective story.
You can take the facts, the material and create a documentary from each riders’ personal perspective and get 8 completely different ideas of what happened, why and who was responsible for what.
Strangely, I’m sure I saw at least some of this in previous docs (either on nflix or utoob), re-used or is this the doc that’s already available on utoob?
One question that needs to be addressed, how is all this « permanent » internal (?) filming affecting the riders and what they’re expressing?