Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Tuesday January 14, 2025 at 12:46 p.m.
Jonas Vingegaard unveiled his season calendar on Tuesday. The Dane, who hopes to win the Grande Boucle for the third time, announced that he would compete in the Tour de France and the Vuelta. As he should have done last year before getting seriously injured.
Big program for Jonas Vingegaard. As in 2023, the Danish champion will double Tour de France and Vuelta this year. The double winner of the Grande Boucle revealed this Tuesday on the sidelines of his team's presentation his calendar for the season, and the two meetings appear there. In reality, it is not a surprise knowing that the leader of the Visma-Lease a bike team (ex-Jumbo-Visma) had already planned to compete in these two Grand Tours last year before getting injured very seriously in his terrible fall during the Tour of the Basque Country (Editor's note: Having become a father for the first time just before the Vuelta, he would probably have given up anyway). Vingegaard, recovered (“I saw myself die”, the cyclist admitted at the time, even admitting that he had thought of stopping his career after this enormous scare”) but greatly disturbed in his preparation, had not been able to really fight on equal terms (Editor's note: He nevertheless finished 2nd and won a stage) with Tadej Pogacar in any case in a state of grace and unbeatable last summer. On the other hand, he hopes to deprive his rival. of a fourth coronation on the Tour.
Vingegaard: “Trying to win the Tour a third time”
The Dane, winner during the last exercise of Gran Camino but also of Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Poland, assures that this will be his main objective in 2025. “I can't wait to return to the Tour, to trying to win it a third time, it's the race that means the most, the biggest of the year, there's something special with the Tour. I want to be at the start with the best possible preparation. “, assures a “Vigo” which will therefore line up at the start of Paris-Nice but also the Tour of Catalonia, again with one goal: to win them. In the same way, the now teammate of Simon Yates, arrived in the off-season, will then try to add his name to the winners of this Tour of Spain in which he finished 2nd behind Sepp Kuss, also a member of the Dutch team, during his second participation in the event, two years ago, with two stage victories to his name.
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