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\u201cHe needs a season where he really commits to it properly, instead of turning up under pressure once at Lombardia and failing, or once at the European Championships and failing there too.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Vingegaard has races almost exclusively stage races in recent seasons<\/p>\n
A rare gap in Vingegaard\u2019s palmares<\/p>\n
For a rider with Vingegaard\u2019s stage-racing record, his one-day CV remains remarkably sparse. His best WorldTour Classic result is eighth at Clasica de San Sebastian in 2021, while his only one-day victory came at the Drome Classic in 2022.<\/p>\n
He did not contest a one-day race in 2023. His only such start in 2024 came at San Sebastian, where he failed to finish, and his return to championship racing at the 2025 European Championships also ended in a DNF. He did not start a one-day race at all in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a discipline he has not learned yet,\u201d Lund said. \u201cHe should have the attributes for it, but he has not managed to make it work yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before his Tour de France crash in 2026, Vingegaard had won Paris-Nice, the Volta a Catalunya and the Giro d\u2019Italia, completing his collection of Grand Tour victories. \u201cHe has mastered stage racing, we know that,\u201d Lund said. \u201cBut there is a dynamic in some of the one-day races he has tried which does not seem to suit him, or there is still something he needs to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strade Bianche and the Ardennes before another Tour assault<\/p>\n
Lund would begin Vingegaard\u2019s Classics experiment on the gravel roads of Strade Bianche in March before Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of the Basque Country lead into Amstel Gold Race, La Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe could absolutely start with Strade Bianche,\u201d he said. \u201cHe would obviously be a big name there, but he could still go slightly under the radar, as much as Vingegaard ever can, because others would be bigger favourites, for example Pogacar.\u201d<\/p>\n
A lengthy break after the Ardennes would then take Vingegaard towards the Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes and his main objective of the summer.<\/p>\n
His 2026 Tour ended on stage 15 when a crash left him with a fractured collarbone, cutting short a Giro-Tour double attempt in which he had been sitting second overall behind Tadej Pogacar.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe needs to use next season to make a serious attempt at the Tour, because he still owes it to himself to prepare purely for it and see what happens,\u201d Lund said. \u201cAt the same time, he needs to bring one-day races into his programme as something new and motivating, where he can develop and use the season to practise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Worlds and Lombardia waiting after July<\/p>\n
Lund would also keep Vingegaard racing deep into the second half of the season. Clasica de San Sebastian would come immediately after the Tour, followed later by the World Championships in France, the Canadian Grand Prix races in Quebec and Montreal, Giro dell’Emilia and Il Lombardia.<\/p>\n
The 2027 Worlds in Sallanches stand out within that programme. The elite men\u2019s road race contains around 5,700 metres of climbing and repeated ascents of the C\u00f4te de Domancy, while Vingegaard is still waiting to make his first elite World Championships road race start.<\/p>\n
Following Lund\u2019s proposed calendar would give Vingegaard 10 one-day race starts across 2027. Across 2024, 2025 and 2026 combined, he managed just two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cHe needs a season where he really commits to it properly, instead of turning up under pressure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,9046,101,36242,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-821600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-sports","tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821600","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=821600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}