đ„ Vingegaard gets second chance at a Vuelta celebration on home soil and confirms European Championship start alongside Pedersen
CyclingSaturday, 20 September 2025 at 07:47
Jonas Vingegaard is back home after his Grand Tour victory. After three stage wins and the overall victory in the Vuelta a España, it was time to return to Denmark, where he was honored. There, the Dane revealed more about his plans for the coming weeks: he confirmed his participation in the European Cycling Championships in October.
There had been rumors about Vingegaard's participation in the ArdĂšche for some time, but now he officially confirmed it at the press conference for his celebration. The party was held in Skive, a town about half an hour from his home in GlyngĂžre. âIt was mainly because I wanted to go home and relax,â he told TV2, among others. âBut I also wanted to celebrate something. That's why it ended up here in Skive. I had to go home.â
On the same day, the Danish Cycling Federation announced the selection for the European Cycling Championships in France. Vingegaard leads that selection, together with Mads Pedersen and Mattias Skjelmose of Lidl-Trek, among others: a very strong team. âIt means you have other cards to play â also with Skjelmose on such a tough route and also with Mads.â
It will be the first time that Vingegaard will represent Denmark at the highest level. At the European Championships, he will have to compete against Tadej Pogacar, among others, who will, of course, be the top favorite. He is skipping the World Cycling Championships in Rwanda, but the Dane is looking beyond this year: his sights are already set on 2026.
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Giro d'Italia for Vingegaard next year?
After winning the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023 and the Vuelta this year, the Giro d'Italia is still missing from the climber's list of achievements. Will he be at the start next year? The Tour still seems to be more important. âIt's clear that's the only thing missing. And I've said that I'd like to participate in the future. However, I'm unsure if that will be possible next year. Only time will tell if you can combine it with the Tour de France.â
After the press conference, it was time to celebrate. A crowd welcomed Vingegaard, gathered in front of the town hall in Skive. There, he had the honor of unveiling a star commemorating his Vuelta victory. The municipality gave the Visma | Lease a Bike team leader an extra gift: a bicycle trailer. Luckily, Vingegaard found it funny.
Selection Denmark European cycling championship 2025
- Jonas Vingegaard
- Mattias Skjelmose
- Mads Pedersen (also time trial)
- Anthon Charming
- Rasmus SĂžjberg Pedersen
- Casper Pedersen
- Alexander Kamp
- Niklas Larsen (also time trial)
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Brucegel17-09-2025 - Roger Vlaeminck says Mads is not a good rider? Where is the headline saying you don't even have to be a good rider to win the World Road Championship says Roger Vlaeminck, who never won it!!? Perhaps his aging mind needs to think about what the heck he's saying.packfiller7103-09-2025
- Wow, there is so much criticism of the UAE XRG riders. Why so much criticism is being leveled solely at the riders is baffling. The UAE XRG management deserves a good amount of the criticism aimed at the team, as a whole. They have not managed the talent they have at all. They failed miserably to properly handle young Isaac del Toro on that penultimate day of the Giro. And they have not handled Juan Ayuso well either. If they didn't have Tadej Pogacar in their roster, we might not be talking about them as winners, at all. So many think that Ayuso has shown that he is not a "team" player at all. Does anybody think that he might be thinking about his own future at this point? That he might want to feel like the team has his back, when they load the pressure onto him? And Joao is not a team leader. That burden might be laid on him by the management, but they need to properly support that assignment, not make it a contentious situation, within the team. And then how management has conducted themselves throughout this parting of ways between themselves and Ayuso has been totally indiscreet. And yet people want to pile onto Ayuso when he tells the truth about the manner that this is all soap opera is developing. He wants out. He shouldn't be getting so much negative criticism for that. It's a situation that has soured. Yes he has a contract, but he is not the first, nor will he be the last that wants to get out of a relationship that just isn't working anymore. And DeCauwer seems to have very vague reasons for criticizing Almeida. He does realize that Jonas is the second best Grand Tour rider of this current generation, so it should be no shame that Joao is behind him in the standings. Riders are giving their all in an extremely difficult sport that stretches them, often beyond their limits. Now many are wanting to send them to Behavioral School as well? The criticism ought to mellow out, or it ought to simply be ignored, as nothing more than blah, blah, blah, not worth the headlines it gets
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