Jonas Vingegaard is the winner of the 2022 Tour de France. Jumbo-Visma have completed a long search for their Tour de France win, a victory built over many years with a strong and complete performance along the three weeks over France.
Vingegaard crossed the line safely and alongside his Jumbo-Visma teammates on the Champs-Élysées and has won his first Grand Tour at the age of 25. He took the win after the crucial days into the Col du Granon and Hautacam where he took time on Tadej Pogacar, but it was his resilience and recovery skills over the three weeks - alongside his power to respond to all attacks that he was under - that had him succeed greatfully.
Vingegaard started the race as a co-leader alongside Primoz Roglic, but after the Slovenian's crash on stage five and subsequent time loss, the Dane took hold of the team's main responsibilities, and confirmed his status as one of the world's best climbers. Jumbo and Vingegaard attacked Pogacar hard on stage 11, seeing massive time gaps which were enough to see the team leading the race.
From there on they controlled it, despite seeing Vingegaard crash and three of it's riders - Primoz Roglic, Steven Kruijswijk and Nathan van Hooydonck - abandon, the Dutch team had the collective power to take three more stage wins in the final week and extend their gap in both general and points classification.
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