{"id":181094,"date":"2025-09-30T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181094\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:50:10","slug":"vingegaard-faces-rare-one-day-test-at-euro-champs-i-dont-know-how-to-be-good-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181094\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard faces rare one-day test at Euro champs: ‘I don\u2019t know how to be good yet’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard (Hansen<\/a>) will line up Sunday at the European championships in France, a surprise inclusion in a peloton where the two-time Tour de France winner is anything but a regular face. For all his dominance on stage races, the Dane has barely dipped his toes into the one-day calendar during his professional career. But that changes in a few days.<\/p>\n

Since turning pro with Visma \u2013 Lease a Bike in 2019, Vingegaard has started only 25 one-day races. That\u2019s a fraction compared with Tadej Poga\u010dar, who has ridden 84 in the same period, or Remco Evenepoel, at 61. His r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes just one victory: the 2022 Dr\u00f4me Classic.<\/p>\n

The recent world championships in Rwanda definitely suited the Dane, but he declined. In fact, Vingegaard hasn\u2019t raced the worlds as a pro\u2013only as an under-23.<\/p>\n

The Dane has done fewer and fewer one days. Sure, he is obviously one of the strongest riders in the peloton, but he hasn\u2019t shown this in a one-day race.<\/p>\n

Can Vingegaard take the one-day race?<\/p>\n

Vingegaard rode a full set of classics early in his career, but since finishing 16th at Il Lombardia in 2022, he has started only once\u2014at the 2024 Cl\u00e1sica San Sebasti\u00e1n, where fatigue and lingering injuries forced him out early. Sunday\u2019s start in the Ard\u00e8che will be his second one-day in three years, and his first championship appearance in the beautiful Danish national team kit.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the region in France holds special memories for him. His lone one-day win in 2022 came just a short spin from this Sunday\u2019s finish in Guilherand-Granges. Yet the course at Europeans is expected to play out differently. There are repeated climbs and heavy favourites who have\u2026well, a bit more experience in one-day chaos.<\/p>\n

Plus, it\u2019s legit stacked. Remco Evenepoel is there, after an incredible world championship TT win\u2026and an emotional silver in the road race.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, some dude named Tadej Poga\u010dar will be there. But even if he wins, his Euro jersey can\u2019t usurp his 2.0 rainbow kit.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard admits he\u2019s still searching for the secret to success outside stage races.<\/p>\n

\u201cI dream of performing well in one-day races,\u201d he told WielerFlits<\/a> after winning this year\u2019s Vuelta. \u201cBut I haven\u2019t really discovered how to do it. The only time I won, it was after racing another one-day the day before, so you can\u2019t really call that a proper one-day win.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Euros await<\/p>\n

The Dane says his uncertainty comes down to preparation. \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do the day before\u2014whether to ride easy or go hard. I know guys who train for three hours as if it\u2019s a race. Maybe that\u2019s the recipe. I\u2019ll have to try.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, Europe\u2019s biggest climber enters Sunday\u2019s race as a wildcard: dangerous on paper, untested in practice.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna be an epic battle, and Canadian Cycling Magazine\u2013far from Europe, will report on one of the biggest races at the end of the year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard (Hansen) will line up Sunday at the European championships in France, a surprise inclusion in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-181094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}