His first major trip, for the Tour of China in September of the same year went unnoticed in the eyes of world cycling (though he finished second in the general classification, which was maybe a sign…).
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When Denmark officially submitted its application for a Grand Départ in June 2016, “proof of the Tour de France’s influence,” according to race Director Christian Prudhomme and the opportunity of combining “the biggest cycling race in the world and the best cycling city on the planet,”, one month earlier, at the age of 19 years, Jonas Vingegaard had just signed his first contract as a professional cyclist with the continental team ColoQuick. – Tour de France 2022 – Grand Depart Copenhague (Danemark) – Jour 2 - Presentation des equipes © AURELIEN VIALATTEA.S.O./Aurelien Out of the ten Danish riders taking starter’s orders in Copenhagen, the runner-up in 2021 was the most emotional on the team presentation stage, loudly acclaimed by tens of thousands of his countrymen and countrywomen who had come to the Tivoli Gardens, the green lung of the capital and a favourite spot for leisure pursuits among the people of Viking ancestry. The Dane already had tears in the eyes in this Tour de France before they flowed again like drips from the stalactites in the Rocamadour Caves nearby the race route when he had definitively vanquished the threat posed by Tadej Pogačar, whose presence had until then cast a shadow over the Jumbo-Visma team which had remained traumatised for a long time by the defeat of its own Slovene, Primož Roglič, on the last time-trial and penultimate stage in 2020. It was as if everything had been set up for him, even though a combination of factors put a former fish factory worker from the Great North in the Yellow Jersey. Jonas Vingegaard, not exactly pre-destined unlike the emerging champions (Egan Bernal and Tadej Pogačar) preceding him on the event’s roll of honour, slipped into position to win the sole Tour de France to have started in his home country, Denmark, at the age of 25 years.
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