{"id":440574,"date":"2026-01-29T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440574\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:49:09","slug":"danish-support-for-visma-lab-after-vingegaard-crash-its-like-someone-coming-to-sit-at-your-table-in-a-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440574\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish support for Visma | LaB after Vingegaard crash: \u2018It’s like someone coming to sit at your table in a caf\u00e9\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> hit the deck, reigniting a familiar debate in the cycling world: is it normal for amateur riders to jump onto the wheel of a professional during training? After the Dane\u2019s crash, Visma | Lease a Bike called on fans to respect riders\u2019 safety as much as possible \u2014 and former pro Brian Holm says he fully agrees.<\/p>\n

It was Spaniard Pedro Garcia Fernandez who wrote on Strava that he had seen Vingegaard go down. \u201cYou can be professional, but you can also stay humble. Jonas crashed when he tried to drop me at the Queen\u2019s Fountain, and when I stopped to ask if he was okay, he got angry with me for following him’ were his words<\/a>.The incident once again sparked discussion about whether following pros in training is acceptable. Groupama-FDJ rider Paul Penho\u00ebt backed <\/a>Visma | Lease a Bike\u2019s message. \u201cWhy don\u2019t they just ask us if we mind them staying near us?\u201d The Frenchman understood Vingegaard\u2019s frustration: \u201cIf Jonas told that guy it bothered him and the guy kept doing it, then yes, that can be really irritating.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"jonas-vingegaard\"\/\u201cIt must drive people like him, Pogacar and Van der Poel crazy to be followed all the time\u201dHolm used similar language when speaking to Ekstra Bladet. \u201cPeople probably don\u2019t realise how stressful that is for a rider. You constantly feel like someone can be sitting on your wheel. And often they\u2019re filming you the whole time as well. At a certain point it becomes too much,’ are his words to EkstraBladet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Holm also understands why his compatriot snapped. \u201cIt must drive people like him, Pogacar and Van der Poel crazy to be followed all the time. In Holm\u2019s view, the danger increases because recreational riders don\u2019t have the same reactions and bike-handling instincts as pros \u2014 which can create risky situations in a split second.<\/p>\n

He points to experiences from his time as a sports director at Soudal Quick-Step. \u201cWe once had two incidents at a training camp. First there was a recreational rider who rode into Fabio (Jakobsen, ed.). There were skid marks on his cycling shoes. The second time, a recreational rider nearly swallowed his tongue. Stijn Steels had to react quickly and take his insole out of his mouth to stop him choking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"jonas-vingegaard\"\/Holm suggests partial solution: ‘People could join a cycling club’<\/p>\n

Whether it ends in a crash or not, Holm believes riding along with pros is, in a way, a breach of privacy. \u201cIf you\u2019re out riding and talking with your partner, and there\u2019s a cyclist sitting right behind you, it\u2019s like you\u2019re at a caf\u00e9 table and someone comes and sits down with you to listen in on your conversation. It\u2019s exactly the same feeling a rider gets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, the 63-year-old Dane admits there\u2019s no perfect fix. \u201cPeople could join a cycling club and learn what is and isn\u2019t done. Someone who\u2019s a member of a club would never even think of it. It\u2019s a matter of basic politeness and social skills. They don\u2019t understand it if they don\u2019t ride that much themselves,\u201d Holm concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, Jonas Vingegaard hit the deck, reigniting a familiar debate in the cycling world: is it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,5900,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-440574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-jonas-vingegaard","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440574","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=440574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}