'I did it for fun' - Jonas Vingegaard goes on the attack at Tour de France

Two-time winner launched a surprise attack on the road to Bolougne-sur-Mer, later admitting that it had been purely for his own entertainment

Jonas Vingegaard
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For much of Jonas Vingegaard's legendary Tour de France rivalry with Tadej Pogačar, it's the Dane who has tended to ride more defensively than the Slovenian.

There have been exceptions to the rule, of course: the Col du Granon in 2022, and the stage to Laruns the year after, but in the main it's been Pogačar who has been the more attacking of the duo. Indeed, after last year’s gravel stage around Troyes, Remco Evenepoel accused Vingegaard of lacking the “balls” to race.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.

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