{"id":288791,"date":"2025-11-29T00:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288791\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:14:04","slug":"i-dont-think-ill-stay-in-cycling-jonas-vingegaard-reveals-no-plans-for-career-in-sport-after-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288791\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I don’t think I’ll stay in cycling’ – Jonas Vingegaard reveals no plans for career in sport after retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Double Tour de France<\/a> winner Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> (Visma-Lease a Bike) has revealed that once his career in cycling is over, unlike many other bike riders – past and present – he currently has no plans to try his hand in a different role in the sport.<\/p>\n

As the season ends and a fresh wave of riders retire, future plans are flying back and forth in the peloton, and many soon-to-be-ex-pros have already announced plans to continue as sports directors or coaches. <\/p>\n

Amongst them, Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) is already fast-tracking to a new position as Head of Racing<\/a> with his current team, whilst Elia Viviani (Lotto)<\/a>, still racing round the boards of Gent velodrome just a few days back<\/a>, was confirmed on Friday as a new Ineos sports director.<\/p>\n

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Still only 28, Vingegaard is a good few years off needing to come to a decision, but as he told the Midtvest<\/a> TV channel in a documentary, he’s already begun to make up his mind.<\/p>\n

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“I actually don’t think I’ll stay in the cycling industry when I stop. I just think I’ll enjoy being at home with my family and being there for them,” Vingegaard said.<\/p>\n

“Other than that, I don’t really know what I want yet, but I’ll figure that out.”<\/p>\n

Vingegaard told Midtvest<\/a> that he had looked at other careers in his youth, which would definitely not have involved racing around half the world on two wheels, either.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always said that I wanted to do something with numbers, probably something in the banking world. I have always been good with numbers,\u201d said Vingegaard.<\/p>\n

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A former business school student, Vingegaard is not the only modern-day pro with links to banking. Before he became a fully-fledged amateur racer, Mark Cavendish used to combine working in a bank with riding a bike.<\/p>\n

However, quite apart from his interest in mathematics, Vingegaard then realised he had other potential talents and interests, too, which he might have followed had he not been a top bike racer.<\/p>\n

“After I grew up and fixed up my own house, I realized that I like crafts more than I actually thought,” Vingegaard said, before agreeing that, “It could very well be” that when he retires, he will pick up some kind of practical trade.<\/p>\n

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“Time will tell. I am very fascinated by carpentry,” he said.<\/p>\n

Rather than depending on natural gifts to get ahead, though, Vingegaard said he felt innate cycling talent was no automatic guarantee of success, and that self-confidence and self-belief also had a great deal to do with how to make the most progress in the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I would just tell them [future generations of riders] to keep believing. It is not always the biggest talents who get the furthest,” he said in the Midtvest<\/a> documentary.<\/p>\n

“I was not one of them myself, and I have still come a long way. So keep going and have fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Double Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) has revealed that once his career in cycling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288791","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=288791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}