Aurélie Sacchelli, Media365, published on Friday November 29, 2024 at 11:03 a.m.
While he has never taken part in the world championships since he started racing as a senior, Jonas Vingegaard said he was motivated by the next three editions, which should correspond to his profile as a climber. Starting with 2025 in Rwanda.
The last time Jonas Vingegaard tried to win a rainbow jersey was in 2018 in Innsbruck, but it was with the Espoirs and he finished ten minutes behind the Swiss winner, Marc Hirschi. Since then, the almost 28-year-old Danish runner has never taken part in a world championship road race, preferring to end his season before (like this year, where he stopped in mid-August to await the birth of her second child) or prepare the Italian classics for October. But that will change! The Dane intends to take advantage of the next three editions of the Worlds, which will correspond to his profile as a climber, to try his luck, and why not succeed Tadej Pogacar on the list of winners. “The next three editions will be Rwanda, then Canada, and finally the Alps in France. So I think those are three good courses for me. But for now, we only know about next year's, and I think it's a route that suits me very well. I think it's been shown previously that I'm always better in stage races, so my main priority will be something other than one-day races. But of course, when there is a world championship like this with a good course for me, it is an opportunity. I would like to do that too. Hopefully I can be there and do my best.”
Vingegaard: “The Giro is a race I would like to compete in”
Concerning his 2025 program, apart from the Worlds in Rwanda (September 28), Jonas Vingegaard does not yet know what his season will consist of, and did not want to confirm the rumors which send him to the Giro. “I cannot yet answer this question, we have not yet decided on the calendar,” assured the double winner of the Tour de France. As I have said before during my career, the Giro is a race that I would like to compete in. But I can't say if it will be next year or the year after that or if it will ever happen. I don't know. We take things year by year. The Giro is always an option. This was also the case last year. I mean, of course the door is open. The door is also open for, I don't know, Flanders and Roubaix (smiles), so, I mean, nothing has been decided yet. The door is only closed when we have established the schedule, and we have not yet finalized it.” It is undoubtedly a matter of weeks, his Visma-Lease a Bike team having made a habit of announcing from the winter training camp who will be its leaders on the Grand Tours.
