{"id":440646,"date":"2026-01-27T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440646\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:09:09","slug":"he-got-angry-with-me-for-staying-on-his-wheel-jonas-vingegaard-crashes-on-descent-while-being-followed-by-amateur-as-team-urges-fans-to-give-riders-space-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440646\/","title":{"rendered":"He got angry with me for staying on his wheel”: Jonas Vingegaard crashes on descent while being followed by amateur, as team urges fans to “give riders space and peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard crashed during training yesterday, a fan who was following the former Tour de France winner on a descent claiming the Dane\u00a0was “trying to drop me” and “got\u00a0angry with me for staying on his wheel while going downhill”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This morning, Visma-Lease a Bike confirmed to road.cc that Vingegaard fortunately escaped without significant\u00a0injury\u00a0from\u00a0the training crash near M\u00e1laga on Monday, although reports from riders who saw him at the roadside suggest his face was bleeding and the two-time Tour winner was left angered by the amateur rider following him down the descent.<\/p>\n

\"JonasJonas Vingegaard at the 2025 Vuelta (credit: ASO\/Unipublic\/Rafa G\u00f3mez\/Sprint Cycling Agency)<\/p>\n

Visma-Lease a Bike took the opportunity to urge fans\u00a0“to always put safety first”. A spokesperson told us: “For both your own and others’\u00a0wellbeing, please allow riders to train and give them as much space and peace as possible.”<\/p>\n

Pedro Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez, a Spanish amateur rider, put his account of the training crash on Strava. He\u00a0shared\u00a0a picture of him following Vingegaard and told his followers “Jonas crashed\u00a0while trying to drop me on the descent of Fuente la Reina”.<\/p>\n

\"JonasJonas Vingegaard training crash (credit: Pedro Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez\/Strava)<\/p>\n

When\u00a0Fern\u00e1ndez stopped to check on the Visma-Lease a Bike Grand Tour\u00a0star, he apparently “got angry with me for staying on his wheel while going downhill”.<\/p>\n

“You can be professional, but you can also be humble,” the amateur rider wrote on Strava. “He was going down fast just to get rid of me and ended up on the ground.
I don’t make a living from this and I’m an amateur like most people, so I don’t think his anger as a professional is justified because of that.”<\/p>\n

However, many of the replies from other riders have followed the line of what Visma-Lease a Bike told us this morning and urged fellow fans and amateurs to respect pro riders’ space and peace when sharing the roads.<\/p>\n

\"JonasJonas Vingegaard training crash (credit: Pedro Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez\/Strava)<\/p>\n

Another person who says they happened upon the scene reported spotting Vingegaard by the roadside guardrail with “his face bloody”.<\/p>\n

“He must have taken a hard hit to end up dragging his face along the ground,” the second rider said.\u00a0“I also stopped and asked if he needed help and he told me no, to go away, very angry.\u00a0Now I understand why.<\/p>\n

“I also think that people like him, who are professionals and have a lot at stake, need to be given space and shown respect,” they continued.\u00a0“They’re risking their lives, their salary, and the livelihood of many people around them. It seems to me that he felt a bit harassed and went faster than he should have on a road he doesn’t know well.”<\/p>\n

\"Jo\u00e3oJo\u00e3o Almeida and Jonas Vingegaard 2025 Vuelta (credit: ASO\/Unipublic \/ Cxcling \/ Antonio Baixauli)<\/p>\n

From what Visma-Lease a Bike have told us this morning it sounds as though Vingegaard\u00a0escaped without anything too serious on the medical front and his preparation for a first tilt at the Giro d’Italia should not be impacted too badly. The Dane is expected to return to racing next month at the UAE Tour, although it remains to be seen if Monday’s crash affects that.<\/p>\n

The incident comes less than a week after some footage was widely shared showing Vingegaard questioning a fan<\/a> who rode on the wrong side of the road on a blind bend to take a video of Visma-Lease a Bike.<\/p>\n

\"FanFan films Visma-Lease a Bike on blind bend (credit: @artem4ik19)<\/p>\n

In the footage, Vingegaard was seen politely pointing out to the filming rider that the climb was\u00a0a two-way road, the fan then\u00a0realising the error of his ways,\u00a0dropping back with an apology, and getting a ‘thank you’ in return.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard crashed during training yesterday, a fan who was following the former Tour de France winner on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-440646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}