On the most well-known stage race, he fought in useless to defend his championship from the earlier two years. He ended up taking second place behind Tadej Pogačar from Slovenia.
Danish bicycle owner Jonas Vingegaard won’t begin this yr’s Vuelta, the place he took second place final yr. The member of the Visma-Lease and Bike crew is exhausted after the Tour de France, through which he fought in useless to defend the championship from the previous two years and completed second behind the sovereign Tadej Pogačar from Slovenia.
“I am as drained as I believe I’ve ever been after the Grand Tour. To be trustworthy, I am exhausted,” Vingegaard instructed Eurosport TV after ending Sunday’s time trial in Good. “Sadly, I will not be competing within the Vuelta as a result of I’ve different priorities this yr, however I am going to undoubtedly be again there someday.”
The winner of the Tour from 2022 and 2023 took the beginning of the “Outdated Girl” lower than three months after he had a heavy fall on the Tour of the Basque Nation, which considerably affected his preparation. “It has been fairly a journey as a result of simply three and a half months in the past I had the worst accident of my profession, through which I broke nearly all of the bones on the suitable aspect of my higher physique and punctured each lungs,” recalled the 27-year-old Dane, who received a stage on the Tour and within the general standings he completed second behind Pogačar by greater than six minutes.
In keeping with the plan, Vingegaard won’t even begin on the Olympic Video games in Paris. On the Vuelta, his teammate Sepp Kuss, who was not on the Tour this yr because of the coronavirus, is to defend the championship.
