Jonas Vingegaard’s Tour de France Mission & Intense Rivalry with Tadej Pogacar ⚔️

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[Applause] I think to be honest with if I was racing without him, it wouldn’t wouldn’t be the same. And and hopefully he he feels the same the other way around. Uh but I guess it could be kind of boring if you just win every how do you say every mountain stage with two minutes. Um so yeah, I actually enjoy having a rival like him. Tell him catcher can’t respond. And this is a big moment. A huge crack opening up here and Vingo, well, he had a team. He had a plan and he’s going to have his cake and eat it by the time he gets to the top here. A man who packed fish for a living. Well, he’s just landed a big one. That is amazing. Yeah, I don’t I don’t really care about what what kind of style and I have and what what people actually think about me. I just care about my family, care about my career, about my team. I want to to win as much as possible. And of course, if if people don’t like the way that I’m doing it, then it’s their problem. It’s not about the way I’m winning it. It’s more about winning the two fronts. Uh yeah, of course, I also like it when when the whole team is about a part of it, a big part of it. Uh like we showed in the past. And yeah, I always have had super good teammates in the tud fronts and and yeah, again this year it will be a super strong team. So every year it seems like everybody’s taking a step at the moment. So obviously I also need to be better than than I was 2 years ago. Um but I also have the feeling that I am improving. Even last year going into the tour I was still kind of believing that I could that I could go for the win. Uh obviously that didn’t didn’t work out. But yeah, this year I feel like completely different uh person to be honest uh in the way how my body reacts to to training but also how yeah how my body is in in general. To be honest, I would have liked to raised a bit more uh and we were speaking about adding Roman D to to my program. Um we decided to leave it out just to focus on the two fronts. So yeah, obviously uh I feel like I I missed out a bit on on the whole spring. Um but yeah, that that’s how it is and and it only gives me more motivation for the tutor fronts. To be honest, I don’t think I’m I’m the born leader. Um but I kind of learned how to be a leader. So actually by the time the more and more I do it, the the more I also enjoy it as well. I mean, in the past I learned from from Bout obviously, but also from Primos uh as a teammate. Uh obviously now I’m more learning from myself as well. So if there’s something that I’m doing in in a race that either I like it or I don’t like it. So yeah, I I kind of learn by what I’m doing myself. So I want to communicate with my with my teammates. Um I think last year probably in the tour I didn’t I wasn’t the leader that I actually would have liked to been. I was probably how do you say a bit insecure in some kind of way and then then I was not communicating as as I normally wanted to. Um but yeah I know there’s a reason for that as well. It’s Vingle up the front. Patcha wakes stalks his prey. Now he goes Patcha trying to come around. Ving’s holding it. Ving got to the line and look at that. What a story that is. It means a lot and all the things I went through. I mean, I’m just happy to be here and yeah, it means so much to to win the stage. I think it back then it was just mainly a relief to be honest. I mean, with all I went through then to be able to take that that stage win was was really incredible. And I mean now when I think back to that stage but also in general the whole tour to France last year I’m first of all I’m thinking that uh I shouldn’t have been there because of what I went through but I was there uh and I’m happy that I was there and then I’m even more happy about how it went as well. [Music]