PRESS CONFERENCE Matteo Jorgenson | "Sepp, Simon, me and Jonas we can make a lot happen in the mountains" of the Tour de France
CyclingFriday, 04 July 2025 at 11:15
Matteo Jorgenson was one of Team Visma | Lease a Bike's top signings of the past few years. In 2024 he won cobbled classics, high-level stage-races and supported Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France. In 2025 he returns to the Grand Boucle with the same goal, but a higher level, as told to CyclingUpToDate and various other medias at the team's press confernece.
The American rider joined Jonas Vingegaard and team DS Grischa Niermann this Friday morning in Lille to discuss the team's ambitions, his role within an incredibly strong lineup for the Dutch team, his current form and the cards the team can use against UAE Team Emirates - XRG throughout the race.
Question: Your part for the Tour de France is mainly building position, do you want to be in GC as well?
Answer: The main goal is to help Jonas for sure. I think in doing that it will help me be good in GC but I'm here to help Jonas win.
Q: Going back to your GC role and talking about your contract extension. Will it be a learning process for a future GC leadership here, maybe next year in a Grand Tour?
A: Every Grand Tour I do is a learning experience, this one specially I think, learning from Jonas. Doing a Grand Tour without GC in mind, without the same pressure Jonas has is helpful. But it's all in mind with the goal of winning the Tour.
Q: Does it make it harder for you to stay in GC and take care of Jonas?
A: Quite a bit easier I would say than being in Jonas' position. I have less expectation, I can focus on my job and once my job is done go to the line as fast as I can.
Q: Jonas says he's in the best shape he's ever been, how do you compare your form to last year's Tour?
A: I think same, I'm also in the best shape that I've found in my life, it's hard to know until you get to the race but at the Dauphiné I think I felt better than last year but the field was so different, this year a stronger startlist but basically I feel better than last year.
Q: Where do you see the strength in your team compared to UAE?
A: I think we have a classics team actually with a few climbers along for the ride. i think that's the key to this Tour de France, it's getting through these first 10 days, treating them like classics and taking advantage there. Once we get to mountains it will be more simple but for me our strength lies in our ability to ride one-day races together and be in position together.
Q: We've seen before that the strategy within Visma is you play a lot of cards in the mountains. Will you try to make the mountain stages your way? Will it be a problem if you don't have many climbers?
A: I would say we have plenty climbers still, definitely with Sepp, Simon, me and Jonas we can make a lot happen in the mountains.
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- The little guy just cocks his head, and totally mashes!Oldguyonavelo15-07-2025
- Actually a pathetic analysis, he contradicts and swerves around every argument. First he advised against, then he criticised, then he wonders if the strategy is different to what he’s reading into it. He also ignores half the possibilities of what Jonas might be thinking, preparing, playing, it’s basically just guesswork out of frustration.Mistermaumau15-07-2025
- Says an expert after the first least favourable week? And if it was just more mind games they’re trading, doesn’t it sound a bit silly to be criticising a strategy before you’re sure you understand it or can see the results. Nobody was tipping on Healy in yellow yesterday. Maybe it’s time to enhance the discussion and stop focusing on microplays between two riders who’ve been overanalysed?Mistermaumau15-07-2025
- When Jonas had just come from zero racing experience. Look, there are so many factors at play and their preparations have been very different, each’ season is evolving in its own way and either can be improving, stable or declining. There is absolutely no point in pointing out any single factor as proof of performance, like trying to predict stock market performance or weather looking at just one variable. Nobody here would get a job making odds at bookies.Mistermaumau15-07-2025
- C’mon, it’s quotation marks, you copy paste and goog it :-) But, it’s only one source, always best to search more seriously when really interested. There are even scientific papers relating height to VO2 max and generally it says the opposite, taller=higher value but they are actually pretty inconclusive because too many other factors play a bigger role, especially when the difference in height is small.Mistermaumau15-07-2025
- Ever heard of wearing something down? Ever watched a whole movie before the end? If people would crack immediately during interrogation we’d all be able to save ourselves a lot of time and energy. They may have to keep at it another week or more but it only takes one crack in the mountains as we’ve seen before.Mistermaumau15-07-2025
- Kind of unfair and biased, most agree Jonas is showing a form of strength he didn’t have before, doing well in stages and situations not previously suited to him? Why do people feel they need to give him stick for speaking about his feeling when that’s basically all we ever ask or expect from pre/post race interviews because there’s little else to discuss? You don’t like the guy but you’re egging him on to beat Tadej in what is defined as a team sport. If it’s not a team sport but you want to match up two individuals, then let them both do the Tour completely alone as time trials and we’ll see who is best. I’m pretty sure Tadej doesn’t ride half as well if he doesn’t have someone to chase or attack.Mistermaumau15-07-2025
- Hallelujah, someone has said it! "I'm insanely strong" etc etc but the only thing Jonas does is try to follow the wheel of Tadej when he attacks and always turning his head looking back like where are my rescuers?! Grow some balls, Jonas, then we will see who is the strongest!Lobz7715-07-2025
- Who thought Visma would be this much stronger than UAE?
Llywelynglyndwr15-07-2025 - Well Tadej had no trouble winning stage 7 of the Dauphine last month with 3 HC climbs, basically a carbon copy of stage 18's profile so...norsiiii15-07-2025