{"id":87614,"date":"2025-08-22T13:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87614\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:53:11","slug":"jonas-vingegaard-skips-world-championships-in-rwanda-and-focuses-on-different-goal-after-vuelta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87614\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard skips World Championships in Rwanda, and focuses on different goal after Vuelta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, the third and final Grand Tour of 2025, is about to start, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/jonas-vingegaard\" title=\"Jonas Vingegaard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Vingegaard<\/a><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/favorites-general-classification-vuelta-a-espana-2025-vingegaard-after-tough-tour-against-fresh-challengers-for-red\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> as the top favorite.<\/a> This will be followed by the World Championships in road cycling, but contrary to earlier reports, Vingegaard will not be going to Rwanda. He confirmed this on Wednesday at his press conference ahead of the Vuelta.<\/p>\n<p>The Dane initially seemed set to make his debut at the World Championships in Africa, but has now decided not to attend. \u201cWe have reviewed our plans. You need to be fresh to compete in the World Championships, and that demands a lot from a rider. I don&#8217;t know how I will feel after the Vuelta, so I have decided not to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading below the photo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jonas-vingegaard-68a71ed246231.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto\" alt=\"jonas-vingegaard\"\/>Vingegaard will ride the European Championships<\/p>\n<p>Vingegaard is not ending his season after the Vuelta. \u201cI&#8217;m going to go for the European Championships, which fits better into the schedule.\u201d This year&#8217;s European Championships will be held in France, in the Ard\u00e8che, on Sunday, October 5, one week after the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The Tour of Lombardy could also be an option, but when asked, Vingegaard said he had not yet made a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, the third and final Grand Tour of 2025, is about to start, with Jonas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-87614","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\/87614","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=87614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}