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Jonas Vingegaard's start at the World Championships remains a possibility, but national coach believes the course "suits him well"
CyclingThursday, 18 July 2024 at 01:00
Jonas Vingegaard is currently fully focused on the Tour de France where, despite number of defeats by Tadej Pogacar, the Dane still dreams of a comeback during the final three stages. But even if things don't work out in France, Vingegaard has better things to look forwards - birth of his second child.
That's also why we won't see the Dane at the Olympic Games in two weeks' time. However the national coach of Denmark still hopes that the Visma | Lease a Bike rider could turn up to the World Championships in Zurich at the end of September.
"I have not spoken to him about it in that context. We have talked about the Olympics, but also about perspectives later in the season, but we have agreed to talk after the Tour," says national coach Anders Lund to Ekstra Bladet.
But is that tough course even to Vingegaard's taste? National coach Lund believes so: "It suits him really well, but the agreement is that we will talk after the Tour, depending on how things turn out. There are the EC and WC in September, which I am really looking forward to. It's one thing at a time. Jonas is just about to ride the last week of the Tour."
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- Barring injuries, by the time Pogacar's dominance fads there will be lots of new young talent. Pogacar is about 1 1/2 years older than Remco. That's nothing.Sweep20-12-2024
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- Jonas', was 6 years agospock12320-12-2024
- The race where he overnight suddenly turned nuclear after being packfodder at best for several years. His Sky days after that Vuelta and Pogačar’s last season shall remain the darkest post Lance stuff cycling has witnessed. Good riddance Froome.
UltimateOpportunist20-12-2024 - Finishing the Vuelta seems to be a reasonably attainable goal. Getting on the team to do that will be the more difficult challenge.
santiagobenites20-12-2024 - To be fair, he has now stated his fuel regime had been corrected and the results concur.Mistermaumau20-12-2024
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