Visma-Lease a Bike sports director: Vingegaard has to improve or 'he probably won't be able to beat Pogačar'

Tour de Pologne 2024: Jonas Vingegaard celebrates overall victory in his most recent race
Tour de Pologne 2024: Jonas Vingegaard celebrates overall victory in his most recent race (Image credit: Getty Images)

A top Visma-Lease a Bike sports director has insisted that double Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard has to up his game or that the chances he will be able to beat arch-rival Tadej Pogačar in the future will drop significantly.

After back-to-back Tour de France victories in 2020 and 2021, followed by two by Vingegaard in 2022 and 2023, this July in France Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) managed to turn the tables on the Dane once again and win his third Tour in five editions.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.