{"id":417865,"date":"2025-09-12T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417865\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:20:24","slug":"family-men-vingegaard-and-pogacar-support-each-other-and-call-for-change-thats-very-old-fashioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417865\/","title":{"rendered":"Family men” Vingegaard and Pogacar support each other and call for change: “That\u2019s very old-fashioned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> will have to hold on to the red jersey for another week. If he manages to win the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>, it will be his third Grand Tour victory. It would be an incredible achievement, but the Dane from Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike makes no secret of how much he has to give in order to get there. Above all, the mental strain is weighing heavily on him.<\/b>Earlier, Vingegaard said that if he wins the Vuelta, he would like to ride the Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a>. Winning all three Grand Tours is a dream for the climbing specialist. He also hopes to compete for the rainbow jersey at some point in the future, even though he is skipping this year\u2019s World Championships in Rwanda.That path requires many sacrifices, and Vingegaard admits it\u2019s becoming increasingly difficult. As a family man, he struggles more and more with the time he spends away from home. \u201cIt has generally been a theme, for me as well as for Pogacar,\u201d he told TV2<\/a>. \u201cThis lifestyle demands a lot from riders. We are away from home a lot, away on training camps, and we push our bodies to the limit. That takes a toll.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Away from home more often than not: it takes a lot out of Jonas Vingegaard<\/p>\n

Of course, that\u2019s part of a professional cyclist\u2019s life, but that doesn\u2019t make it easier for his family (Vingegaard has a son and a daughter, ed.). \u201cIn some ways, it makes more sense to be away for a race. That\u2019s our job. Your kids don\u2019t understand why you\u2019re at a training camp, but they do understand that you\u2019re racing because they can see you on TV. To them, training camps just seem kind of pointless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vingegaard himself struggles with it too. He spends more time away from home than he would like. A three-week race is unavoidable, but the Dane argues for a different approach when it comes to training. He hopes to balance his family life with his career at the top of the sport. \u201cIt would be fantastic if you could combine it, so that you wouldn\u2019t have to be away from your family for three weeks at a time. That\u2019s very old-fashioned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vingegaard hopes to spend more time with his family in the future<\/p>\n

Pogacar and Vingegaard share longing for home: “It is something that drains us massively”After the Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar<\/a> admitted he needed a break. Not necessarily physically, but especially mentally: he needed to recharge. Vingegaard has spoken with his rival about how tough the lifestyle is. \u201cHe also said this sport is tough, and it is something that drains us massively. Especially with the spring campaign he had, followed straight away by training camps. As he put it, he had barely been home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, for the Slovenian it\u2019s not quite the same. For Vingegaard, as a father, leaving his wife and children behind is particularly hard. \u201cHaving kids in this sport only makes it harder to be away from home. It\u2019s the best thing that can happen to you, having children. But in cycling, it\u2019s also incredibly difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard will have to hold on to the red jersey for another week. If he manages to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-417865","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\/115190118961747010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417865","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=417865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}