{"id":220357,"date":"2025-10-23T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220357\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:31:11","slug":"i-almost-fell-out-of-the-car-when-i-saw-jonas-drifting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220357\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI almost fell out of the car when I saw Jonas drifting back&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jonas-vingegaard\" title=\"Jonas Vingegaard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> had an unlucky spring but ultimately found his best level once again in the summer, only it wasn&#8217;t enough to beat Tadej Pogacar at the Tour de France. Despite this, the Dane manage to carry some of his form over to the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a where he was still able to win despite not having his best level. Danish coach <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/michael-morkov\" title=\"Michael Morkov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Morkov<\/a> hoped for a similar level at the climber-oriented <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/european-championships\" title=\"European Championships\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European Championships<\/a>, and to this day remains very surprised with the outcome of that race.<\/p>\n<p>On the Caf\u00e9 Eddy podcast, Morkov did not hide how much of a surprise it was to see his leader on paper get dropped before the action truly even began in the peloton. \u201cI almost fell out of the car when I saw Jonas drifting back through the convoy 100 kilometers into the race&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Vingegaard simply did not have the legs on the day, but the distance in which he was dropped from the peloton meant he was far from competitive on that day, and couldn&#8217;t even begin to pose any sort of threat to the likes of Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel. It was a disappointing end to the Visma rider&#8217;s season, even if expectations weren&#8217;t the highest on the one-day race that the World Champion eventually won.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about a man who wins the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. Who wouldn\u2019t want him on their team for the Europeans? Jonas told me he felt good before the race. It\u2019s true that recovery after both the Vuelta and the Tour takes time, but I was aware of that from the start,&#8221; Morkov said.<\/p>\n<p>Is the rainbow jersey possible in 2026?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former pro naturally wants Vingegaard in his lineups for the big races, and with next year&#8217;s world championships taking place in another climber-oriented course in Montreal, he could aim for a potential rainbow jersey. But only if he is able to show his very best level, which hasn&#8217;t happened so far outside of the stage-races. \u201cI saw a very, very disappointed Jonas after the race. If nothing else, I can only hope he\u2019ll be so fired up that next time he rides for Denmark, there\u2019ll be something to prove,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard had an unlucky spring but ultimately found his best level once again in the summer, only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-220357","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\/220357","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=220357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}