Tag: Jonas Vingegaard
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Tadej Pogacar’s (modern) blockbuster win + The People’s Champion | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2024 Tour de France
There was plenty of action in the final week of the 2024 Tour de France – but action alone doesn’t hit too hard when there is so little sense of jeopardy. As such, Tadej Pogacar’s dominant victory was a lot more impressive than it was entertaining. Foreshadowing a damp squib The final week began with…
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Well done Pogacar, Vingegaard bloody | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2024 Tour de France
There’s still a week to go in the Overcooked Tadej Pogacar v Undercooked Jonas Vingegaard experiment. The sport’s meat thermometers are really struggling to see how the Dane could overhaul what still appears to be a growing deficit though. Overcooked? Or underfed? Stage 10 probably goes down as the most boring Tour de France stage…
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Third wheel Remco, gravel grovelling, Mark Cavendish doesn’t know what year it is + more | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2024 Tour de France
After nine stages of the 2024 Tour de France, the big stories are probably Remco Evenepoel inserting himself between yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar and reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard, and Mark Cavendish winning a stage – a feat that is almost paradoxically newsworthy precisely because of what a common occurrence it has been. Roll up, roll…
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Sepp Kuss survives three Grand Tours and his own team-mates | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana
A strong, loyal and selfless servant on the crucial days when stage races are won and lost, Sepp Kuss is pretty much exactly what you’d mould if you had the power to shape the perfect team-mate. It was therefore something of a surprise when the two men he helped to victories in this year’s Giro…
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Can anyone place a foot on Jumbo-Visma’s podium? | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana
Remco Evenepoel bested all his overall rivals in the Stage 10 time trial and then won Stage 14 in the Pyrenees. If it weren’t for the small matter of shipping 27 minutes on Stage 13 in between those two triumphs, it would have been a pretty good week for last year’s Vuelta a Espana winner.…
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Jonas Vingegaard does not deal in seconds | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Tour de France
Jonas Vingegaard’s average daily time gain over Tadej Pogacar over the first two weeks of this year’s Tour de France was less than half a second. He improved on this rather dramatically over the next two days. While the Dane was frequently second by seconds, by the end of three weeks he was first by…
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Seven seconds away | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2023 Tour de France
I can actually cover this middle week in a paragraph for all the significant developments there’ve been: Jonas Vingegaard’s lead over Tadej Pogacar has slipped from a barely meaningful 17 seconds to a neither-here-nor-there 10 seconds. Everyone else is now even further behind than they previously were. I say that Vingegaard’s advantage is neither here…
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Two heads are better than none | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2023 Tour de France
This year’s Tour de France was seen as a straight head-to-head between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard and almost immediately appeared to become that. That’s probably better than only having one of them left in the race – or neither. We have a decent idea how good different riders can be going into the Tour…
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What if the Pogacar v Vingegaard head-to-head loses a head? | a 2023 Tour de France preview
This 2023 Tour de France preview is so breath-takingly comprehensive, it actually features a smattering of references to riders who aren’t Tadej Pogacar or Jonas Vingegaard. There’s a quick look at some of the big stages coming up in the first week as well. Last year’s Tour de France was won by Jonas Vingegaard ahead…
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Pogacar is unlike Vingegaard – a springtime state of play update
Spring is (sort of) here. Tadej Pogacar is winning bike races. Gauntlets are being thrown down. Where are we with everything? Shall we try and take stock? The WorldTour (the UCI still hasn’t found its space bar) officially began in January with the Tour Down Under, but road cycling’s deep-rooted eurocentrism means it never really…