Jonas Vingegaard stormed to an impressive win at Paris-Nice on Wednesday, surviving an onslaught from Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe and truly bleak conditions to take the stage win and race lead.
But Vingegaard’s choice of foul-weather clothing and how he wore it arguably drew more attention than the win itself.
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Unsurprisingly, Vingegaard wore the extra bibtights to keep warm, and explained his plan was to rip the pre-prepared extra bibtights off as the race progressed.
“To keep me warm in the beginning, I wore the extra-long pants. We prepared the bibs so that two teammates could easily rip them off.
“After that, I could just take the parts on my legs off like leg warmers. In the end, the race was so hard that there were never two teammates around to tear the bibs off,” he explained.
There we have it, Vingegaard pre-cut the extra bib tights at the rear to ensure team mates could more easily rip them, and remove them deeper into the race. The brutal nature of the stage, however, meant they stayed on until the end.
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