{"id":444030,"date":"2026-01-29T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444030\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:32:09","slug":"brian-holm-justifies-vingegaards-outrage-with-unwanted-company-in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444030\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Holm justifies Vingegaard’s outrage with unwanted company in training"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 season is meant to be the one where Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> finally accepts the challenge of Tadej Pogacar and re-takes the Tour de France throne with an ambitious Giro-Tour plan. However the year started far from ideal as on one of his training rides earlier this week, the Dane lost control over his bicycle and ended up with a bloodied face. Fortunately, the 29-year-old escaped any serious injuries.Since then, a fellow Scandinavian Magnus Kulset<\/a> (former professional with Uno-X, currently with continental team Ringerike) came to defend Vingegaard’s alleged (team refused to further comment on the incident) anger over unwanted company. Now his voice is joined by a leading figure of Danish cycling, Brian Holm<\/a>, who spoke to EkstraBladet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“People probably don’t understand how stressful it is for a rider. You always have the feeling that he might run you up the ass. And often they’re filming you constantly. At some point it becomes too much. Then you’re crazy, I understand him (that Vingegaard allegedly got angry, ed.). It must drive people like him, Pogacar and Van der Poel crazy to have people following them all the time.”<\/p>\n

Not the first incidentBrian Holm<\/a> spent most of his active career in the 90s, when the roads were still quite a bit more calm. However during his time as sports director at T-Mobile and later Quick-Step, he noticed the increased unpleasant attention on trainings. And at times, a disaster was just around the corner, he reveals:<\/p>\n

“We had two incidents at a training camp once. First, a regular cyclist rode into Fabio (Jakobsen, ed.). There were brake marks on his cycling shoes afterwards. The second time, a cyclist was about to swallow his tongue. Stijn Steels had to react quickly and take out his tongue so he wouldn’t choke.”<\/p>\n

Furthermore, riding too close violates one’s privacy to an extent. “If you are sitting with your partner and talking on a ride, and there is another cyclist sitting behind, it is like if the two of you are sitting at a caf\u00e9 table, and someone sits over at your table and listens to your conversation. It is exactly the same feeling that a cyclist has.”<\/p>\n

\"Jonas<\/p>\n

Jonas Vingegaard would prefer if cycling tourists kept their distance<\/p>\n

Holm acknowledges that there is not much that can be done about the trend. The public roads are for everyone, but he still has a request for the recreational cyclists out there: “People could join a cycling club and learn what to do and what not to do. Someone who comes from a cycling club could never come up with that (to follow the riders, ed.). It’s common courtesy and social intelligence. They don’t understand it when they don’t cycle that much themselves.”<\/p>\n

After the incident with Jonas Vingegaard<\/a>, Visma | Lease a Bike also had a clear message, which they sent out to the press along with the update that Vingegaard was not seriously injured: “As a team, we would generally ask fans on bikes to put safety first. Both for your own well-being and that of others. Please leave the riders to train and give them as much space and quiet as possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 season is meant to be the one where Jonas Vingegaard finally accepts the challenge of Tadej…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,164463,784,6495,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-444030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-brian-holm","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-jonas-vingegaard","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444030","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=444030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}