"It's boring anyway” - Dutch Pundit takes aim at Jonas Vingegaard

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Wednesday, 02 July 2025 at 09:09
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Dutch commentator Mart Smeets appears notably unenthusiastic about the 2025 Tour de France. On the cycling podcast De Kopgroep, Smeets didn’t hold back, delivering a particularly blunt assessment of Jonas Vingegaard.
"It's boring anyway if you field a Dane who rarely says anything nice in his life," says Smeets. "Who has no charisma. Who can cycle fast, but reduces cycling to a three-week small spectacle and who happens to come from Copenhagen and surroundings."
His words were harsh, especially given Vingegaard’s track record. The Dane claimed back-to-back Tour titles in 2022 and 2023, only losing out to Tadej Pogacar in 2024 after a build up disrupted by injury. Without Vingegaard in the mix, Pogacar could well have been chasing a sixth consecutive yellow jersey this summer.
Smeets went even further, questioning the significance of nearly the entire Tour peloton. "There are 176 starting this year. That means that 170 men have absolutely no business being there. Just riding along and bringing a little water."
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9 Comments
Crashjames 03 July 2025 at 19:47+ 509

God what an a hole - why does this site insist on giving a platform to these pundits who have never won a race ?

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Front242 02 July 2025 at 14:20+ 38

Dirty Danes..

daskalos 02 July 2025 at 10:53+ 7

Definitely the Copenhagen 2011 WC road race was the most boring ever,lol

mobk 04 July 2025 at 02:38+ 1938

Grumpy old has been who doesn’t much like cycling

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Jkolner123 04 July 2025 at 02:38+ 5

Mart Smeets hate his job.

Jezla 04 July 2025 at 02:39+ 73

Jonas isn’t boring….. he’s his own person, if that’s different to other people, so what. This guy Smeets is just a small dog yapping for attention.

RidesHills 04 July 2025 at 02:39+ 903

Cycling is almost entirely a game of aerodynamics and energy drain. If people want a triathlon-style cycling experience, no drafting allowed, they should watch triathlons and time trials. The peloton is absolutely essential to the rest of the sport, those 170 riders do more than fetch water.

abstractengineer 04 July 2025 at 02:39+ 3593

All the cyclists responses to media can easily be done by a robot. Even Pogi. Without Jonas, the TDF would be won at a canter by Pogi which would be extremely boring like the giro he won last year.

awp 04 July 2025 at 02:39+ 1508

Jonas may be boring, but he is a great champion, something Smeets will never know.

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