{"id":77623,"date":"2025-08-18T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77623\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:44:07","slug":"jonas-vingegaard-on-vuelta-one-clear-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77623\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard on Vuelta: \u2018One clear goal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonas Vingegaard says there is no ambiguity about his ambitions for <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/vuelta-a-espana-set-for-high-stakes-showdown-with-vingegaard-almeida-and-gee-in-mix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>: he wants to win.<\/p>\n<p>The Dane, already a two-time Tour de France champion, will lead Team Visma | Lease a Bike into the season\u2019s final Grand Tour, backed by a squad that blends proven winners and all-around support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to this Tour of Spain,\u201d Vingegaard s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamvismaleaseabike.com\/race-preview\/news\/team-visma-lease-a-bike-aiming-for-another-overall-victory-in-the-vuelta-a-espa%C3%B1a\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aid ahead of Saturday\u2019s start in Turin<\/a>. \u201cAfter the Tour, I first took some rest and then started my preparations for this next main goal of my season. In recent weeks, I\u2019ve been on an individual training camp, with support from the team on site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vuelta is a race Vingegaard knows well. \u201cI rode my first Grand Tour here in 2020. Which we won with Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d. In 2023, we completed our trilogy here and even stood together on the final podium in Madrid. Hopefully, we can add some more great memories this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/could-this-be-derek-gees-vuelta-a-espana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Could this be Derek Gee\u2019s Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Visma\u2019s Grischa Niermann made the team\u2019s objectives clear. \u201cThe overall win is our big goal, there\u2019s no need to be coy about that,\u201d he said. \u201cJonas is our leader and our biggest chance for the overall victory. But with Sepp Kuss, we have a former winner at the start. And Matteo Jorgenson has recovered well after the Tour de France. Together with Wilco Kelderman, Ben Tulett, Victor Campenaerts, Dylan van Baarle, and Axel Zingle, we have a team that can support Jonas in every situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The race features five mountain stages and 10 hilly days. There are also a couple of time trials. For Vingegaard, the focus is simple: \u201cI\u2019m here for the overall win, and with this team supporting me, that seems like a realistic goal. I\u2019m ready and would prefer to start racing right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the other big favourites for the Vuelta is Osgoode, Ont.\u2019s Derek Gee. The Israel \u2013 Premier Tech, like Vingegaard, is riding his second Grand Tour of the year. Earlier this year, Gee just missed the podium at the Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the race on <a href=\"https:\/\/flosports.sjv.io\/c\/6129470\/2005798\/24751?utm_campaign=generalaffiliate&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flobikes.com%2Fsignup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flobikes.com<\/a>. After every stage, check back here on Canadian Cycling Magazine for a full report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard says there is no ambiguity about his ambitions for La Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a: he wants to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[59440,64,63,784,59441,6495,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-77623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-2025-vuelta-a-espana","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-derek-gee","13":"tag-jonas-vingegaard","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77623","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=77623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}