{"id":170315,"date":"2025-09-30T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/170315\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:57:09","slug":"information-thats-useful-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/170315\/","title":{"rendered":"Information that\u2019s useful to me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> returns to racing this week. The leader of Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike did not travel to Rwanda for the World Championships but will be at the start of the European Championships in France on Sunday. National coach Michael M\u00f8rk\u00f8v is looking forward to his leader’s return and has enlisted the help of his brother, who is close to Vingegaard.M\u00f8rk\u00f8v had a pretty good debut as national coach. The former rider saw Mattias Skjelmose finish fourth in Rwanda on Sunday in the road race won by Tadej Pogacar<\/a>, with Mikkel Honor\u00e9 finishing twelfth. The next job is approaching soon, as the European Championships begin on Wednesday in France. That’s when the time trials will be completed.<\/p>\n

At those European Championships, unlike at the World Championships, M\u00f8rk\u00f8v can count on Vingegaard. In 2025, the Dane built up to the Tour de France, where he finished second behind Pogacar. He then turned his attention to the Vuelta, which he ultimately won. Now, as the icing on the cake of the cycling year, there is the European Championships road race in France this Sunday.<\/p>\n

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\"jonas-vingegaard-2\"\/The M\u00f8rk\u00f8v brothers discuss team leader Vingegaard: “Passing on information about Jonas that is useful to me in my role as national coach”During that Vuelta victory, Jesper M\u00f8rk\u00f8v, Michael’s brother, was Vingegaard’s sports director at Visma | Lease a Bike. This has advantages for the national coach, even though he already knows his team leader well. “I know Jonas a little from the peloton and even had a good correspondence with him when we raced together,” he told Feltet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The close relationship with his brother is therefore very useful in this scenario. \u201cI get on well with Jonas, but it’s a huge advantage that I can discuss Jonas with my brother, who was recently his sports director in the Vuelta. That way, he can pass on information about Jonas that is useful to me in my role as national coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

M\u00f8rk\u00f8v sees that this could work in much the same way for other teams. \u201cIt’s a bit like if I had called Kim Andersen (sports director at Lidl-Trek, ed.) and talked about Skjelmose or Mads Pedersen. It could be to hear how their start has been, or how they could be approached. So, of course, it’s a huge advantage that we (Jesper and Michael M\u00f8rk\u00f8v, ed.) are related.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"jonas-vingegaard\"\/“It’s fantastic that I have someone I know in Jonas\u2019 cycling team”<\/p>\n

The question is, of course, can the national coach tell us what kind of information he discusses with his brother about Vingegaard? \u201cNo, I can’t. It may not be anything specific. But it’s more of an exchange of how he thinks about cycling and what he needs,\u201d he says, unfortunately unable to give us an answer.<\/p>\n

In addition to tactics and other race-related matters, the M\u00f8rk\u00f8v brothers also discuss the logistical challenges surrounding their team leader. \u201cJesper also helps prepare Jonas’ equipment. That’s part of the whole logistics behind it. It’s fantastic that I have someone I know in Jonas’ cycling team, so I don’t have to arrange things with strangers,\u201d says the national coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard returns to racing this week. The leader of Visma | Lease a Bike did not travel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-170315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}