Jonas Vingegaard était en conférence de presse ce lundi matin pour revenir sur sa défaite dans les Pyrénées face à Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), sur qui il accuse désormais 3'09" de retard, et évoquer cette dernière semaine du Tour de France.
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00:00It seems that you're climbing at your best level, but Taddei Pogacar is climbing even
00:07better.
00:08Aren't you a bit surprised about Taddei Pogacar's level this tour?
00:13No, I mean, it's true that I'm climbing at my, at least yesterday, climbing at the best
00:19level that I've ever done.
00:24But when someone is better, you just have to accept it.
00:27And he's better for now.
00:28So hopefully we can turn it around for the third week.
00:32Do you still believe in it, that it's possible to do something to attack Taddei Pogacar on
00:37Friday, for instance?
00:39Yeah, I still think it's possible to do something.
00:43I won't go down without a fight, for sure.
00:46I've now won the Tour de France twice and I'm not here to ride for second place.
00:51So of course I will do everything I can to try to take the victory.
00:59He seems very strong, but we've also seen in the past that he can have bad days and
01:03maybe he will have that in the third week.
01:05You never know.
01:06You're not looking back, because what do you think of the performance of Remco Evenepoel?
01:13Do you expect something from him in the last week?
01:16Yeah, I mean, Remco is also really, really strong.
01:20He showed that yesterday as well and the day before.
01:24To be honest, I'd rather try to attack Taddei for the first place, than looking back.
01:36Jonas, I was just wondering what were your last thoughts when you went to bed yesterday
01:44evening and how are you feeling now?
01:47What were my last thoughts?
01:49I think in general I'm actually really happy and proud of how I rode, how the team rode
01:55yesterday.
01:57I mean, as I said before, I did the best performance of my life yesterday, so I cannot be disappointed
02:04at all.
02:05And then Taddei was just better yesterday and he deserved to win.
02:11That's just how it is.
02:12So I'm not disappointed at all.
02:14I'm really happy and proud of myself and the team.
02:19Jonas, cycling is also about mental strength.
02:23After two weeks of racing, do you still have the energy now to keep on fighting like you
02:29already did the last months?
02:31Do you still have that energy mentally?
02:33Of course.
02:34I never crack mentally.
02:39I will keep fighting.
02:40I will keep doing everything I can.
02:43Then we'll see in one week what the result will be.
02:47In the last couple of years, at all key stages, your plan went out and all worked well for
02:53you.
02:54Yesterday it was the first stage, so how do you do this next cycle?
03:03To be honest, we also had a few times, or at least one time or maybe even two times
03:08last year that the plan also didn't work.
03:11So we just had to keep fighting and it's the same this year.
03:16We just have to keep fighting, keep believing that it can be possible.
03:22I haven't lost faith at all and I still believe that it can be possible.
03:26We showed it the last two years, so as I said before, we just have to keep trying and keep
03:31believing in it.
03:32Jonas, how important is your private environment here and how do you handle the hustle and
03:41bustle around your person here?
03:44Yes, good question.
03:47I mean, of course, my family means absolutely everything to me.
03:55They support me every day and they have supported me every day since the crash as well.
04:02It's been really emotional for me to see how they supported me in this period.
04:09It's really been a tough period, not only for me, but for the family.
04:14It's nice that they are there for me and that they are here today, later today, so
04:21that I can spend some time with them as well.
04:24I was wondering, on Friday you will go on a parkour at a height of 2,800 metres, since
04:38you have had a lung injury, do you think it is a disadvantage and how did you prepare
04:44for it?
04:47To be honest, I don't think it's a disadvantage because I think I showed yesterday that my
04:51lungs are working perfectly, even better than normal maybe.
04:58Of course, before the Tour de France, we didn't know whether I had some problems with the
05:07lungs when I had to go really, really hard, but I think we showed, or it showed, yesterday
05:15that there was no problem at all and that my lungs are fully capable of performing as well.
05:23Your last win was very emotional, have you been surprised and does it give you extra
05:31energy for the next one?
05:36It was quite a surprise for me to win in the stage I won.
05:42I didn't expect that, so that's also why it was a bit emotional and also because of
05:48everything that happened in the last three months with the injuries I had, being 12 days
05:53in hospital, then everything just came to me and it was just so emotional for me.
06:06At that point, I never expected to even be at the start of the Tour de France this year
06:10because the injuries were so bad and so to just win a stage was really incredible and
06:18really emotional for me.
06:20Jonas, you say you're at the highest level you ever were and you're hoping for a bad
06:27day for Taddei to win the Tour de France, if you zoom out, do you think the level Taddei
06:33reaches at the moment is reachable for you as well?
06:39I mean, it's not because he's way better, so I think for sure in the future if I can
06:48just, how do you say it, or maybe even in this Tour de France that I can improve a little
06:53bit, then it will be more equal and more, how do you say it, then maybe it's the same
07:02level.
07:04Okay, thank you Jonas for this moment.
07:09Thank you.