Cycling - Tour de France 2024 - Jonas Vingegaard : "Follow Tadej Pogacar is already a victory for me"
Le Danois Jonas Vingegaard de la Visma Lease a Bike à l'arrivée de la 2e étape de ce Tour de France 2024.
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00:00To be honest, today was maybe one of the days that I expected to lose a bit of time, so
00:09to be able to follow Taddei is a small victory for me and I'm really happy to finish in the
00:15same time as him.
00:16Can you talk us through the moment, the second time, San Luca to the finish?
00:20Yeah, of course.
00:23We tried to put in a hard tempo from the bottom and then they took over, Joi, and then Taddei
00:30attacked and I tried to follow him and luckily I could follow him, so I can be happy with
00:36that and then I decided to work with him from the top of the climb.
00:42Is there anything that reminds you of all the injuries you had in the past two and a
00:48half months?
00:49Yeah, when I just hit the ground with my pedal in one corner, then I had a small reminder,
00:54but...
00:55You almost crashed today?
00:56No, I wouldn't say I almost crashed.
00:58I just touched the pedal quickly and yeah, it wasn't a problem, it's just you get a small
01:05reminder and...
01:06Do you have fear in the descents?
01:09No, I wouldn't say so.
01:10And physically, how are you physically?
01:12Because it looks like you're the old Jonas Vingegaard.
01:15Yeah, that's what I hope to be as well.
01:18Of course, it's pretty hard when you go into the race and you don't really know where you're
01:23at and especially in my case that I had a one and a half month of training, so of course
01:31it was hard to predict where I was and I was even doubting myself and that's not a lie,
01:37to be honest.
01:39But yeah, it's really nice for me that I can say that I'm back and hopefully I will have
01:49three good weeks here.
01:50Thank you.
01:52Jonas!
01:53Daniel!
01:54Jonas, how are you feeling after the first two stages now?
01:59I think for sure I can be very happy with how everything went today, also yesterday
02:04of course, but especially today that I was able to follow Tadej on the second time of
02:12San Luca because I think this is probably one of the stages we feared the most or we
02:19actually expected me to lose time.
02:22Because of the preparation, yeah, I didn't... and that's honestly speaking that I didn't
02:28have a good preparation for this race.
02:31I only had one and a half month to prepare properly, so yeah, I think I can be super
02:38happy with how everything has went so far.
02:40Was it a test that you were waiting for?
02:44Yeah, waiting but also fearing in some kind of way, because I knew it was already before
02:50my crash at a stage that maybe suited him better than it suited me and then especially
02:55after my crash that, yeah, then maybe I was even more behind, but at least I can say now
03:02that yeah, if not I'm back, but yeah, at least I'm super, super close to my normal level.
03:08Jonas, what was the conversation at all between you and Tadej and the gains you were making
03:12on Remco and Primoz?
03:14Yeah, I mean, he wanted me to pull on the kicker there, but I waited till the top of
03:20that one because otherwise I knew he would attack me again.
03:25And then from that moment I started working with him and to try to gain some time on all
03:30the other competitors.
03:33So yeah.
03:34These have been brutal days, how hard have these last two days been for you and how satisfied
03:38are you?
03:39First of all, I think this has went like way better than I have ever expected.
03:45So I'm really satisfied.
03:47And yeah, it has been two hard days, to be honest.
03:50Can you speak to the team?
03:52Any concerns in the middle of the race when you lost Wout and Matteo?
03:55Yeah, for sure.
03:56When I heard they crashed, I was, of course, concerned about it.
04:00Luckily, they didn't hurt themselves.
04:03It's only scratches as I hear it.
04:06So yeah, I think that's lucky because it's two super, super important helpers and teammates
04:12for me.
04:13You had a nice moment with Matteo in the finish.
04:16It seems like he's the first person you talked to, what did you guys discuss?
04:19Yeah, he just said that he's actually proud of me and that coming back from an injury
04:25like I had, or injuries, to be honest, it's impressive to be able to make that in just
04:33a month and a half.
04:34And yeah, I think Matteo is a super good guy, to be honest, I really enjoy being in the
04:40team with him.
04:41Do you think you're already a little bit in today's head now?
04:45Oh, I don't know.
04:46I think you have to ask today about that.
04:49Thank you.
04:50Thanks.