Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma-Lease a Bike team celebrated their Vuelta a España victory at their service course in the Netherlands on Tuesday, the emotions of a difficult race and the satisfaction of success mixing with future ambitions.
Vingegaard rode to the entrance of the service course in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, wearing his red race leader’s jersey and riding his special red Cervélo bike. Team staff held flares and congratulated the Dane on securing the team’s third Grand Tour victory after Simon Yates won the Giro d’Italia and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won the Tour de France Femmes.
No official celebrations are planned in Denmark and Vingegaard is expected to spend time at home before riding the road race at the European Championships in France on October 5 and then Il Lombardia on October 11. Like his Vuelta rival João Almeida, he has opted not to ride the World Championships in Rwanda.
He has hinted he would like to ride the Giro d’Italia at some point to complete his Grand Tour triptych but seems keen to take on Tadej Pogačar yet again in the 2026 Tour de France.
Pogačar dominated this year’s Tour but Vingegaard hopes to build on some improvements. from the Vuelta.
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