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Though Matteo Jorgenson<\/a> has this season frequently starred in the comedic vlogs<\/a> of his teammate at Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike, Victor Campenaerts<\/a>, their relationship did not start out friendly. The two-time winner of Paris-Nice explains the evolution in a video on his team\u2019s channel<\/a>.\u201cI made a new friend this year in Victor,\u201d says the US-based Jorgenson<\/a>. \u201cAt first he was kind of an enemy of mine in the peloton. We didn\u2019t get along very well in the past. I simply didn\u2019t know him. And if you don\u2019t know someone and there\u2019s tension, you very easily turn them into an enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having raced for the predecessor of Visma | Lease a Bike in the 2016 and 2017 seasons, Campenaerts returned to the Dutch outfit at the end of 2024. Jorgenson had just completed his first season with the team at that time. Outside the peloton the hostility melted away \u2014 and the two immediately clicked.<\/p>\n

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Jorgenson: ‘It just worked perfectly’<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I got to know him at the first team meeting a year ago, he completely broke down my defence,\u201d says Jorgenson. \u201cNow we are really good friends. We do the vlogs together. It was just like two guys travelling all year and living their dream together. It\u2019s simply a very nice and unexpected friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n

During both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Campenaerts and Jorgenson shared plenty of fun via the vlogs \u2014 a welcome distraction from the three weeks of suffering on the bike. \u201cThe best thing about the vlogs was that he told me nothing in advance, nothing was scripted.”<\/p>\n

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\"matteo-jorgenson\"\/Jorgenson ‘bent over laughing’ about Ullrich<\/p>\n

“He would just come up to me on the bus and surprise me with the camera while I was doing something; it just worked perfectly,\u201d Jorgenson recalls with pleasure. One of Jorgenson\u2019s favourite vlogs revolves around Jan Ullrich. The former rider disclosed that during the off-season he microwaved a jar of Nutella and then drank it.<\/p>\n

Jorgenson and Campenaerts subsequently challenged Ullrich to confirm the story. Ullrich responded playfully with a photo drinking a jar of Nutella under the caption \u201cyou don\u2019t need a microwave in summer”. \u201cI\u2019ll never forget that,\u201d says Jorgenson. \u201cI was bent over laughing because I thought Victor made it up. It just sounded so ridiculous. So then I asked Ullrich if it was true and the next day he responded by drinking a jar of Nutella,\u201d Jorgenson laughs.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of that I\u2019ll never forget how far those vlogs can reach; it\u2019s really laugh-able.\u201d<\/p>\n