"I was hoping that Tadej would give me the stage win, but I didn’t necessarily expect it” - Jonas Vingegaard can't cap resurgent performance with Tour de France stage win
CyclingSaturday, 20 July 2024 at 19:01
After the emotional disappointment of stage 19 at the 2024 Tour de France, Jonas Vingegaard was again put on the back foot on stage 20 by Remco Evenepoel. This time however, the Dane did not buckle, powering away from his Belgian rival, although a stage win wasn't quite on the cards due to a superior again Tadej Pogacar.
After Soudal - Quick-Step had set a fierce pace all day, Evenepoel attacked on the final climb. Disappointingly for Evenepoel though, a counter from Vingegaard actually dropped the Belgian. With 2.6km to go, Pogacar and Vingegaard caught the remainder of the break and as the final 500m were reached however, just two remained up front. Pogacar was stuck on the front, but the Maillot Jaune decided to launch his sprint early and comfortably triumphed again.
“In a way I was hoping that Tadej would give me the stage win, but I didn’t necessarily expect it,” Vingegaard explained to the Eurosport camera in his post-stage interview. “I was riding hard. If he sprinted, I wouldn’t have had a chance anyway because I was already at my limit. But you can always hope, it’s cycling and that’s how it works.”
"I can't blame him, I probably would have done the same," concludes the Dane, who at least reaffirmed his 2nd position in the general classification. "I'm already very happy with how I performed today and was able to come back from yesterday."
2024 Tour de France stage 20 results:
| 1 | POGACAR Tadej | UAE Team Emirates | 210 | 04:04:22 |
| 2 | VINGEGAARD Jonas | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 150 | + 07 |
| 3 | CARAPAZ Richard | EF Education-EasyPost | 110 | + 23 |
| 4 | EVENEPOEL Remco | Soudal Quick-Step | 90 | + 53 |
| 5 | MAS Enric | Movistar Team | 70 | + 01:07 |
| 6 | ALMEIDA Joao | UAE Team Emirates | 55 | + 01:28 |
| 7 | JORGENSON Matteo | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 45 | + 01:33 |
| 8 | LANDA Mikel | Soudal Quick-Step | 40 | + 01:41 |
| 9 | YATES Adam | UAE Team Emirates | 35 | + 01:43 |
| 10 | BARDET Romain | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | 30 | + 01:52 |
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- lol so true. hunt stages. pidcock is the most perplexing rider in the pelotonmij08-06-2025
- Nice to see Jonas coming out of his shell, both during and after the race. Wonder what he said that made Tadej react 'Oh really?!'.Renz08-06-2025
- ah
KerisVroom08-06-2025 - Jonas wanted to congratulate Tadej, that's all. He was distracted.
maria2024202408-06-2025 - A podium would have kept the streak going, but winning makes it even stronger. Since Jebel Hafeet at the UAE Tour, across Strade Bianchi and 4 monuments, he has been no worse than third. 9 consecutive podiums, 6 wins on the road, one GC. Good lord.RidesHills08-06-2025
- Fantastic and unexpected! a Jonas in Tadej style! My fear was that Jonas might be too worried (a bit paralyzed) by the risks of cycling after his crashes.. I'm very happy to see that it's not the case.maria2024202408-06-2025
- Weird that Jonas pulled his hand away from MvDP when MvDP wanted to congratulate him on the 2nd place.KerisVroom08-06-2025
- His team's management, coaches, and agent likely have better insight
Front24208-06-2025 - "I did my best-ever hour in terms of power and was seven minutes behind. The thing is, for me, I've never raced up an hour-long climb before. And I've never trained for an hour-long effort" Bro why are you doing GC for god's sake when you have not the talent, the capacity, the training for GCabstractengineer08-06-2025
- Yes it was shocking to lose the Jersey in such a fashion and there was far to much questionable riding between the top 4, often being saved because Gee was trying to get into the top 3 but riding like was 2nd half the time when was just the 4 of them. The fact Isaac held on for so long given that, at his age was incredible and well worth a celebration. Its his team that truely failed him by chasing down when had dropped Yates(?) that stage and was gonna strengthen his lead and had Gee for IPT riding hard to help (again) to try and get 3rd but stupidly UAE chased it down and that cost the race.HoopoeChai08-06-2025
All top riders know Eddy Merckx's career records by heart, and know that 8 stage wins in one year is the mark he equalled *twice*. Eight stages in one Tour isn't quite the "gentlemanly" thing to do, but so be it. NBC/Peacock commentator Phil Liggett is a prime example of Jonas's target audience with his dig: Even after Pogacar-Jorgenson rundown yesterday, Phil stated on-air today that "i believe Tadej will concede to Jonas if it comes down to a sprint between them (now that the gc race is won)" Wisely, his on-air commentating partner vowed to "eat my cowboy hat" if Phil were proven correct. No hat consumption required.
Phil needs to retire. Him and his sidekick Bob Roll are sounding like Dumb and Dumber on the commentary. Both have misidentified riders the whole tour and Bob's off pitch commnetary is just nauseating ! Miss the GCN crew !