We need to talk about Jonas ‘Danish Dynamite’ Vingegaard

This nickname needs some work, let us get things started

Jonas Vingegaard at the 2022 Tour de France
(Image credit: Alex Broadway / Getty)

“It was Danish Dynamite,” says beaming Jumbo-Visma manager Richard Plugge. The Dutchman pulls down his mask briefly to flash his pearly whites to the camera crews after his rider Jonas Vingegaard has blown open the Tour de France GC battle on the Col du Granon.

He says it with absolute confidence. But you can feel the assembled press pack cringe behind their masks. Is this what we’re calling this guy now? Surely this is just the first draft? Is that really what his team-mates call him?

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