{"id":575997,"date":"2026-03-31T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575997\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:14:15","slug":"is-the-old-jonas-vingegaard-finally-back-after-that-horrific-crash-i-feel-that-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575997\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the old Jonas Vingegaard finally back after that horrific crash? \u2018I feel that too\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It must feel good to be Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> this year. The Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a> leader has so far lined up at Paris-Nice and the Tour of the Basque Country<\/a>, and in both stage races he won the general classification along with two stage victories. So is he finally back at the level he had before that awful 2024 crash? In Denmark, they certainly seem to think so.<\/p>\n

At Paris-Nice, Vingegaard added the overall, points and mountains classifications to his palmar\u00e8s, while last week in the Basque Country it was \u201conly\u201d the overall title. Either way, one thing is clear: Vingegaard is in very good shape, and that bodes well for the Giro d\u2019Italia. The 29-year-old Dane is set to ride the first Grand Tour of his career there in 2026.<\/p>\n

That top form was also noticed by former rider and Danish analyst Nicki S\u00f8rensen, who told TV2<\/a>: \u201cAfter Jonas Vingegaard\u2019s crash in the Basque Country… I don\u2019t think we saw the same Vingegaard again until this year. He was missing something, and I don\u2019t know exactly what it was. But it was not the Vingegaard from before the crash. Now he may be back again \u2014 or maybe even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"vingegaard-lipowitz-martinez\"\/\u2018I have the feeling, without being fully aware of it, that it had a bigger impact than I thought\u2019<\/p>\n

The Danish broadcaster then put those words directly to Vingegaard himself. \u201cI feel that too. I feel that over the past two years I\u2019ve worked hard to get back to that level \u2014 and in a way to the Jonas I was before my crash. I have the feeling, without being fully aware of it, that it had a bigger impact than I thought,\u201d the Dane said.<\/p>\n

The comeback itself is already admirable. In that nasty crash, still burned into many people\u2019s memories, Vingegaard broke several ribs and his collarbone, while also suffering a punctured lung. \u201cIt takes a very long time to recover from a crash like that, with a collapsed lung and so much damaged muscle tissue. It can take up to two years, and maybe that\u2019s what we are seeing now,\u201d S\u00f8rensen added.<\/p>\n

The Danish outlet also spoke to Thue Kvornig, a physiologist who has worked with the Danish team. He did not have direct details of Vingegaard\u2019s case, but he still offered his view: \u201cTissue, muscle tissue and bone tissue never heal completely back to the exact state they were in before. You can measure with different tests that someone is back, but in reality there may still be a few percent missing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"jonasVingegaard can now enjoy racing a bit more again<\/p>\n

And according to Kvornig, those few percentage points can make all the difference. \u201cWhen you are operating at the level Jonas Vingegaard is at, the small margins are what matter, and those small margins can make the difference in certain situations. But as time goes on, he can keep getting closer to his top level, and suddenly he can hit a peak where, in many ways, he feels like himself again.\u201d<\/p>\n

That now appears to be exactly how Vingegaard feels after his dominant performances in France and the Basque Country. \u201cOver the last two years, I struggled to find the level I felt I used to have. Because when you are fighting your way back, that becomes your focus. Now I\u2019m back there again, and maybe I can enjoy it a bit more,\u201d said the Visma | Lease a Bike rider.<\/p>\n

What it will mean for the biggest targets of the season remains to be seen. In any case, Vingegaard now heads to training camp in this kind of form as he builds toward the Giro, which starts on 8 May. There he is set to face, among others, Jo\u00e3o Almeida of UAE Team Emirates-XRG, who has recently admitted he still has some doubts<\/a> about his condition. That should make for a fascinating battle regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It must feel good to be Jonas Vingegaard this year. The Visma | Lease a Bike leader has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,6495,85,282471,23372],"class_list":{"0":"post-575997","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-cycling","11":"tag-jonas-vingegaard","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-the-tour-of-the-basque-country","14":"tag-visma-lease-a-bike"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575997","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=575997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}