Climber born in a flat country, the Danish seemed to have at the outset neither the profile nor the limits of a future winner of the big loop.
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In the cycling peloton, we look at the physical first. The new ones quickly find themselves undressed in the gaze: size, morphology and the legs especially. In 2018, Tony Hurel discovers those of Jonas Vingegaard during the 3rd stage of the Tour du Loir-et-Cher . “When you are slender and with great femurs like him, you climb well. A climber, you spot it in your legs.” Soon “retired”, the runner of the Saint-Michel Auber 93 formation loves to boast with his six-year-old son: “You know, Papa beat the yellow jersey in Vendôme.”
This 21 -year -old Danes with his black and white striped jersey of the modest coloquick formation immediately caught his eye. “In the little” raidard “to Vendôme, he had placed a hell of a attack. I had managed to return and beat him in the sprint, continues Hurel. But he had impressed me and I did some research on the evening for See his results. “He discovers an almost pale record as the face of the future winner of this Tour de France 2022.
Jonas Vingegaard has long been a well -hidden secret. In his country already. Before his surprise podium in 2021 in Paris – second, behind Tadej Pogacar – The Jumbo -Visma runner (25 years old today) is still presented as the son -in -law of Rosa Kildahl, local celebrity for its pastry talents interviewed in different emissions of the genre. Even dressed in a yellow jersey surrounded by the cameras, the stepson always gives off an antistar side. Almost absent. Trine Hansen, his partner, describes him as “secret and very shy”.
The celebrity took by surprise the young father of Frida, soon two years. The love of his compatriots too. In Copenhagen, when the Tour 2022 departs, its tears during the presentation of the teams betrayed A mixture of emotivity and astonishment after the ovation reserved by the mass mass in the gardens of Tivoli. “Jonas is still a sensitive and shy guy, confirms Anders Lund his national team coach in the Hopes category. He had to find a way to deal with the pressure that his talent and his performances have generated.”
This talent, no one had spotted it at the start. In the trajectory of certain future winners of the Tour, there is sometimes as a retrospectively anomaly. The British Bradley Wiggins was a coated roller focused on the love of hops and his compatriot Chris Froome a funny disarticulated puppet landed from Kenya without significant results. Jonas Vingegaard is the former “fishmonger” who has become champion.
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