{"id":295697,"date":"2025-11-20T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295697\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:33:08","slug":"vingegaard-says-road-worlds-withdrawal-saved-him-after-euro-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295697\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard says road worlds withdrawal \u2018saved\u2019 him after Euro collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard isn\u2019t sugar-coating what happened at the European championships<\/a>. His first outing in Danish colours ended with a DNF and a quite blunt assessment: it simply wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

What stings a little less now, he says, is the decision not to race the world championships in Rwanda the week before. Speaking to Feltet.dk<\/a>, Vingegaard said his form was nowhere near good enough for a race of that level.<\/p>\n

Many had hoped the multiple Tour de France champ\u2013and 2025 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a winner, would ride in his first pro road worlds. He has only raced the event back when he was an under-23. Unfortunately\u2013despite the hilly parcours that would suit him\u2013it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

Spectators harass Poga\u010dar during European continental champs solo win<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad I showed up and tried,\u201d he said. He said riding the worlds \u201cwould have been an even bigger disaster.\u201d He explained that travelling to Africa hadn\u2019t been realistic after riding both the Tour de France and the Vuelta. \u201cIt would\u2019ve been a waste of everyone\u2019s time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard has already outlined why things unravelled. After winning the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, his body shut down. He wasn\u2019t able to train at all for two weeks. He now adds that his first proper session came right around the week before the worlds. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that I didn\u2019t want to train \u2014 I just couldn\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Heading into the Euro road race, some late sessions gave him and the Danish staff a bit of optimism, but on the day, he had nothing to give. He abandoned early, clearly exhausted.<\/p>\n

If there was one upside, Vingegaard said, it\u2019s that the performance answered critics who questioned his repeated absences from national-team events. \u201cOf course I wanted to do better,\u201d he said. \u201cBut racing showed why I\u2019ve said no other times \u2014 because I\u2019m completely worn out and have nothing left.\u201d<\/p>\n

He hopes the message lands. \u201cInstead of people saying, \u2018Jonas doesn\u2019t care about the national team,\u2019 they\u2019ll understand there\u2019s a reason I don\u2019t always line up.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the future, the disappointment hasn\u2019t put him off riding for Denmark again \u2014 but only with the right preparation. \u201cIf I were to ride the euros or the worlds, I wouldn\u2019t do it in a season with both the Tour and the Vuelta,\u201d he said. Proper buildup is non-negotiable.
Could 2026 be the year he\u2019s back in the red and white? \u201cThe worlds are definitely something I\u2019d like to race next year,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it depends on how the rest of my season looks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard isn\u2019t sugar-coating what happened at the European championships. His first outing in Danish colours ended with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,5900,82,1422],"class_list":["post-295697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295697","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=295697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}