{"id":628700,"date":"2026-06-09T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628700\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:44:13","slug":"just-get-on-with-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628700\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJust get on with your job\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFormer professional rider and Viaplay analyst<\/a> Michael Rasmussen<\/a>, however, felt the show went too far. \u201cHe has done a fine job, but there is no need to turn it into a circus act,\u201d Rasmussen said.Rasmussen criticises viral Visma moment<\/p>\n

Rasmussen\u2019s criticism centred on the way Rex appeared to play to the cameras after finishing one of his huge efforts. The Dane argued that the work itself was not in question, but the theatre around it was unnecessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is totally overdoing it,\u201d Rasmussen said. \u201cOne day he quickly rode across the road, took off his bike computer and showed it to the camera crew. Just get on with your job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rasmussen also questioned whether Rex needed to stretch the effort as far as he did, given the depth Visma still had sitting behind him. At several points in the Giro, Rex\u2019s turns came before riders such as Victor Campenaerts, Bart Lemmen, Sepp Kuss and Davide Piganzoli were deployed later in the climb.<\/p>\n

That was part of Visma\u2019s strength throughout the race. Vingegaard won five stages, Kuss added the queen stage, Piganzoli finished eighth overall, and the team controlled the decisive mountain days with little sign of panic. Rex\u2019s role was one of the earliest and most punishing parts of that structure.<\/p>\n

\"Tim<\/p>\n

Rex was a breakthrough star of the 2026 Giro d’Italia<\/p>\n

Rex: \u201cI was seeing stars\u201d<\/p>\n

Rex has described the effort in far simpler terms. After Stage 14, he told Sporza that he had already reached his limit before being asked to continue riding on the front. \u201cI was actually already finished, but suddenly I was told that I just had to keep riding,\u201d Rex said. \u201cI was seeing stars and everything else except the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a rider in his first Grand Tour, the moment showed the kind of engine Visma were prepared to use in service of Vingegaard\u2019s Giro bid. Rex did not merely ride until his turn was over. He rode until there was almost nothing left.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is one of my strengths that I can keep riding until the lights go out completely,\u201d he said. \u201cI really hurt myself. When I saw how small the group was, I was actually surprised by myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

What looked theatrical to Rasmussen was, from Rex\u2019s side, a rider pushing so deep that the road itself began to blur.<\/p>\n

Giro spotlight finds new Visma engine<\/p>\n

Rex\u2019s work became a small but vivid symbol of Visma\u2019s wider Giro. Vingegaard was the star, but the team\u2019s control came through layers of domestiques doing specific jobs at specific moments.<\/p>\n

The German\u2019s place in that train was not glamorous. It involved riding until he cracked, then leaving others to finish the work. In a Giro where Visma repeatedly squeezed the life out of the peloton before Vingegaard made the decisive move, even the early turns became part of the spectacle.<\/p>\n

Rasmussen saw too much performance in the suffering. Rex described a rider pushing until the lights went out. Either way, the images stuck. In a race defined by Vingegaard\u2019s pink jersey, Rex managed to become one of the faces of the effort behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former professional rider and Viaplay analyst Michael Rasmussen, however, felt the show went too far. \u201cHe has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,20995,9046,213012,101,36242,166593,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-michael-rasmussen","tag-sports","tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike","tag-tim-rex","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628700","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=628700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}