{"id":466336,"date":"2026-03-09T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466336\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:08:09","slug":"not-worthy-of-a-worldtour-race-jonas-vingegaard-makes-feelings-clear-over-roads-used-in-stage-1-of-paris-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466336\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Not worthy of a WorldTour race’ \u2013 Jonas Vingegaard makes feelings clear over roads used in stage 1 of Paris-Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the bike, Jonas Vingegaard<\/a>‘s start to the 2025 season at Paris-Nice may have been largely uneventful. Still, the Visma-Lease a Bike leader found himself in the news post-stage all the same after he criticised some of the roads used during Sunday’s opening hilly leg.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think the route was very good today,” Vingegaard told Feltet<\/a>, “I don’t think it was worthy of a WorldTour race. Bad roads, constantly right and left, potholes.”<\/p>\n

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Vingegaard saved his strongest words for the final descent off a third-category climb, the C\u00f4te de Chanteloup-les-Vignes, which led to a short section of flatter road and then the technical finish.<\/p>\n

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“We rode it three times, it wasn’t good enough for a WorldTour race,” the double Tour de France<\/a> winner stated.<\/p>\n

“It was stressful. Very stressful. I hope not all my race days will be like this this year. Then it won’t be fun.”<\/p>\n

Feltet reported that it had approached ASO over Vingegaard’s criticisms, but the organisation made no comment.<\/p>\n

Although held up by crashes, but not losing time as they took place in the 3km-to-go safety zone, Vingegaard finished 54th in the results table in the same time as the main bunch.<\/p>\n

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As a result of the time bonuses on offer during the stage, on GC, he is lying 10 seconds behind stage winner Luke Lamperti<\/a> (EF Education-EasyPost).<\/p>\n

With his season start delayed following a training accident and illness, Vingegaard was almost equally expressive about the tension on a crash-filled stage 1 when he talked to Danish TV channel TV2 <\/a>after the race.<\/p>\n

“It was stressful, I would say. There was a lot of stress out there, and luckily, we made it through safely out there. There were a lot of crashes today.<\/p>\n

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“I just hope everyone is okay. It was my first race day this year, and I hope that all race days aren’t all going to be like this, because then it would be terrible.”<\/p>\n

When TV2 suggested that his feelings of apprehension might be due to his lack of racing so far this year, Vingegaard responded good humouredly,<\/p>\n

“Maybe I’m getting old, I don’t know,” he joked.<\/p>\n

“However, I talked to some people out there, and they said that, fortunately, not all races have been like this. I hope the rest of the week won’t be like that either.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard is perhaps more mindful than in the Paris-Nice peloton about road conditions and crashes, given he was a DNS on stage 6 of Paris-Nice last year <\/a>after falling on stage 5. Briefly race leader last year and running second overall when he abandoned, his best result to date overall was third in 2023 <\/a>behind Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ United)<\/p>\n

Like stage 1, stage 2 of Paris-Nice from \u00c9p\u00f4ne to Montargis also has three third-category climbs, but they are all early on. The usual echelons of the plains of northern France notwithstanding, the 187km day of racing is expected to end in a bunch sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the bike, Jonas Vingegaard‘s start to the 2025 season at Paris-Nice may have been largely uneventful. Still,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-466336","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\/466336","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=466336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}