Jonas Vingegaard has already won more than most riders could ever dream of. Three Grand Tours, Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico, the Critérium du Dauphiné, Tour of the Basque Country, Volta a Catalunya and Tour de Pologne are all on his palmarès.

But the 29-year-old insists he’s far from finished, despite chatter and rumours from analysts. After his recent Tour de France abandonment due to crashes, we kept hearing he would pack it in.

Vingegaard at the Tour of Denmark

Speaking to Danish outlet Feltet on Thursday at the Tour of Denmark, Vingegaard said that’s a big ole nej. The Visma-Lease a Bike rider was in his hometown of Glyngøre, where Stage 2 of the five-day stage race was starting. The town was honouring its most famous resident for his win at the Giro d’Italia, completing a sweep of all three Grand Tours, something few riders have done. But he has plenty more goals in mind.

“There are still many races I haven’t won. That’s something that motivates me,” Vingegaard said.

He pointed to this season as evidence that he’s already working toward that goal.

“I’ve already started doing that this year and in previous years by trying to win races I hadn’t won before. This year I’ve won three races I’d never won before. Hopefully next year I can ride some races that I haven’t won yet,” he said.

Goals for 2027?

Vingegaard has previously spoken about wanting to collect as many of cycling’s major one-week WorldTour stage races as possible. That is a challenge few riders have come close to completing.

Although his rival and pal, Tadej Pogačar, is getting there. This year the Slovenian did major stage races he hadn’t up to this point, and the Dane thinks he might have a go at winning them too.

Among the traditional week-long races, the Danish rider has yet to win the Tour de Romandie or the Tour de Suisse. Those two tough races are a couple of events he’d like to add to his resume. But just Pogi’s programme this year, it would mean changing up his schedule when it comes to prepping for the Tour.

Romandie falls during a period when Vingegaard has often skipped racing. He usually instead focuses on training camps at altitude. And then as far as the Tour de Suisse, it overlaps with the race he has consistently chosen: the Criterium du Dauphiné (sorry, the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.). He has raced Romandie only once, in 2019 but back when he was a domestique–winning was not on the menu. He has never started the Tour de Suisse.

Looking back at his career

Vingegaard also chatted on just how much his career has changed since watching the Tour de France as a child.

“I still find it hard to realize how much I’ve won and how big it really is,” he said. “As a kid I watched the Tour de France and saw how big it was. To be the one who has won it twice, and also won the other two Grand Tours, is difficult to fully take in.”

Vingegaard added that he hopes to race the world championships later this season in Montreal if his fractured collarbone continues to heal as expected. His remaining race schedule has yet to be confirmed.

The Tour of Denmark resumes Friday with the queen stage, from Fredericia to Vejle, for a total of 202.9 km. There are two Canadians racing, Gaspé, Que.’s Pier-André Coté (who sits fourth overall) and Canadian/U.S. dual citizen Ashlin Barry, who races for Wout van Aert’s Visma-Lease a Bike squad.