{"id":246505,"date":"2025-07-07T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246505\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:38:10","slug":"its-so-off-robbie-mcewen-responds-to-visma-criticism-coming-from-jonas-vingegaards-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246505\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s so off&#8221; &#8211; Robbie McEwen responds to Visma criticism coming from Jonas Vingegaard&#8217;s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jonas-vingegaard\" title=\"Jonas Vingegaard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonas Vingegaard<\/a>\u2019s surprised the media when in an interview, she suggested Visma | Lease a Bike should only focus on the yellow jersey at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France<\/a>, pushing aside the ambitions of his teammates (and mainly Wout Van Aert) at the on-going Tour de France.&#8221;The interview by his wife in the Danish press: her criticism of the team, their training techniques and how much he has to be away from home &#8211; during the first week of the Tour de France&#8230; it&#8217;s so off,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/robbie-mcewen\" title=\"Robbie McEwen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robbie McEwen<\/a> was amazed by Trine Vingegaard Hansen&#8217;s openness in a retrospective during The Breakaway podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Some contents should&#8217;ve not been shared with the outside world, McEwen things: &#8220;It&#8217;s certainly not a discussion for a public forum, it&#8217;s something to do in private and ideally outside of the racing season. Definitely outside of the Tour de France.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps she meant to help Jonas gain a more steady position within the team and in the eyes of public, but some of her statements could&#8217;ve hurt his image instead: &#8220;It&#8217;s just an unnecessary thing going on in the Tour life of Jonas Vingegaard at the moment. Let&#8217;s face it, everybody is talking about it in the cycling world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was also interesting that she said the team should be fully focused on him,&#8221; noted guest pundit Owain Doull (EF Education-EasyPost) on The Breakaway. McEwen added: &#8220;And not Wout getting any chances during the Tour. I mean, come on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard\u2019s surprised the media when in an interview, she suggested Visma | Lease a Bike should only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-246505","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\/114814589685469029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246505","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=246505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}