{"id":178342,"date":"2025-06-12T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178342\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:12:10","slug":"pedersen-makes-bold-claim-after-watching-vingegaard-in-the-dauphine-ill-just-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178342\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedersen makes bold claim after watching Vingegaard in the Dauphin\u00e9: “I\u2019ll just say it…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although it has been several days, the acceleration with which Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> exploded in the final stage of the first stage of the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9<\/a> is still resonating<\/a> in the minds of cycling enthusiasts. Many analysts and former riders have already spoken out<\/a>, but now it is the turn of Vingegaard’s compatriot, Mads Pedersen<\/a>, who made a bold statement.<\/b>An acceleration on terrain that should not suit<\/a>\u00a0Vingegaard, but the Dane still set the race alight on Sunday. Explosive, powerful, relentless… The two-time Tour winner gave it his all and ensured that Tadej Pogacar<\/a>, Remco Evenepoel, and Mathieu van der Poel could sprint for the first yellow jersey. It ultimately went to the Slovenian world champion, who narrowly beat Vingegaard.The cycling world had seen something it certainly hadn’t expected, leading to much discussion. “I think Vingegaard is even more the moral winner than Pogacar. I thought it was fantastic. He was the one who attacked and formed the leading group, whereas, in previous years, he would have concentrated on staying with Pogacar. Now, he attacked himself. You only do that when you’re feeling good,” said Thijs Zonneveld enthusiastically<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Eurosport analysts also looked on in amazement at a kind of \u2018new\u2019 Vingegaard. “I don’t know what’s happening with Vingegaard, but he’s confidently riding around. He’s friendly in interviews and riding well, attacking and sprinting. There’s something positive about him,” observed Jan Hermsen. “It’s also smart to show Pogacar at moments like this that he can sprint and has trained for it. \u2018Watch out,\u2019 he’s basically saying. He’s also giving the reporters something to talk about now, so he can tell them during the Tour that he’s taking more rest,\u201d added Bobbie Traksel.<\/p>\n

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Jonas Vingegaard with Tadej Pogacar<\/p>\n

Pedersen saw ‘amazing and brilliant’ Vingegaard in opening stage Dauphin\u00e9Someone who probably knows the Dane from Visma | Lease a Bike even better than the analysts mentioned above is Mads Pedersen. Vingegaard also left his compatriot from Lidl-Trek speechless on Sunday, Pedersen said in the podcast Lang Distance<\/a>. “It was an insane stage. It was good to see. Great to see Jonas back. He’s entering Pogacar’s territory, so Tadej might not have expected this,” said the winner of the purple jersey in the recent Giro d’Italia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pedersen saw that Pogacar was also quite shocked by the explosive Vingegaard. \u201cYou can see that Tadej has time to think: “What on earth is happening here? What is this?\u2019 He didn\u2019t close that gap as easily as he might have thought. You could see him fighting to close that gap. Amazing Jonas. Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing.”<\/p>\n

Despite his efforts, Vingegaard was ultimately beaten in the sprint, although that was by no means a disaster for Pedersen. “He has everything to gain and nothing to lose. Imagine if he had won the stage… You wouldn’t have believed it with that group. Crazy, genius. Even though they didn’t win a second.”<\/p>\n

After seeing his compatriot’s effort, Pedersen dared to make a bold statement. “I’ll just say it: Jonas will win the Tour,” he said confidently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although it has been several days, the acceleration with which Jonas Vingegaard exploded in the final stage of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114670334397097039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}