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Worre added that while Vingegaard has the physical ability to succeed, it\u2019s a question of mindset as much as talent. \u201cHe can certainly do it, but only if he truly wants it. If he\u2019s divided inside and not fully committed, then it\u2019s better he stays focused on stage races.\u201d<\/p>\n
“You can\u2019t do everything”<\/p>\n
Fellow Eurosport commentator Bastian Emil Goldschmidt echoed those concerns, reminding fans that Vingegaard already gives more than enough through his stage-racing exploits. \u201cI think we already get so much from Vingegaard,\u201d Goldschmidt said. \u201cHe\u2019s the only one who\u2019s beaten Pogacar in the biggest stage races. For him now to also take on Pogacar in one-day races \u2014 where Pogacar is arguably the rider of the decade \u2014 that\u2019s a lot to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n
Worre agreed, stressing that even cycling\u2019s greatest champions must refine, not reinvent. \u201cTo perform at world level, you have to keep improving what you\u2019re already good at,\u201d he said. \u201cJonas should strengthen his stage-racing ability, which suits his engine perfectly. He\u2019s at his best in that domain.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pogacar benchmark, and why the pivot is costly<\/p>\n
The analysts\u2019 hesitation isn\u2019t about limiting ambition; it\u2019s about opportunity cost. Pogacar\u2019s 2025 reset the bar yet again: a fourth Tour de France title, dominance through the spring, and the World Championships road race victory in Kigali, plus bronze in the time trial. To meet that standard across both stage races and one-day monuments would require Vingegaard to retool training blocks, peaking strategy and race rhythm \u2014 and risk blunting the very edge that wins him Grand Tours.<\/p>\n
Tactically, the gap between their profiles is stark. Pogacar\u2019s repertoire in one-day racing leans on repeatability in high-torque accelerations, the ability to open and close gaps on sub-optimal gradients, and relentless initiative. Vingegaard\u2019s superiority resides in long, oxygen-thin efforts, metronomic pacing and altitude-hardened control \u2014 assets that scale best over three weeks.<\/p>\n
Could Vingegaard contend at Il Lombardia or Liege-Bastogne-Liege? On terrain, yes: selective climbing, limited flat, reduced sprints \u2014 these are the Classics most sympathetic to a GC engine. But the marginal gains that keep him unbeatable across mountain blocks and third-week TTs are the same marginal gains he\u2019d need to sacrifice to build the punch, positioning and race-hardness that one-day warfare demands.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Worre added that while Vingegaard has the physical ability to succeed, it\u2019s a question of mindset as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-207655","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\/207655","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=207655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}