{"id":205727,"date":"2026-07-04T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=205727"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:22:45","slug":"jonas-vingegaard-arrives-at-the-tour-ready-to-hunt-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2026\/07\/04\/jonas-vingegaard-arrives-at-the-tour-ready-to-hunt-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m Both Better and Stronger\u201d: Jonas Vingegaard Arrives at the Tour Ready to Hunt Yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard does not sound like a man limping into the Tour de France after a brutal Giro d\u2019Italia. He sounds refreshed, reset, and quietly dangerous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Visma-Lease a Bike leader arrives at the Tour having already won the Giro,<\/a> Paris-Nice and Volta a Catalunya this season, but rather than presenting the Giro-Tour double as an act of survival, Vingegaard is framing it as something closer to a renewal. The Giro, he insists, did not empty him. It sharpened him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout taking anything away from anyone at the Giro, it is true that I did not have to completely kill myself. I didn\u2019t come out of the Giro completely on my knees,\u201d Vingegaard said.<\/p>\n

That may be the most important detail of his entire Tour build-up. The Giro-Tour double has long been cycling\u2019s most treacherous balancing act. Win too hard in May, and July punishes you; hold too much back, and Italy slips away. Vingegaard believes he found the narrow path between the two.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat means you can recover faster afterwards and start your training and get into a good rhythm quicker. If you are on your knees after the Giro, you need two weeks, maybe even more, to recover,\u201d Vingegaard added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen it is hard to start building towards the Tour because then the Tour is already coming. For me at least, I came out of the Giro in a good way and pretty quickly I could start building towards the Tour de France.\u201d<\/p>\n

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