Racing against shadows: Jonas Vingegaard, Jumbo-Visma, and cycling’s eternal questions At the Tour de France, the Dane and his team have answered every question on the road. Other questions, however, are proving more difficult cycling TDF2023
For those old enough to remember the same paper’s heralding of a certain extraterrestrial from Texas back in 1999, the implication was clear: the Tour’s dominant rider is out of this world, alien, mutant, pas normal.
> “He can shut his mouth”: Marc Madiot slams “small, shabby” Jumbo-Visma boss who claimed that French riders were drinking “large beers” on rest day “But I think, if you don’t question my performance, it will come back. So I’m happy to be asked, because I think it’s a good thing to be critical of how we perform.
Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma are perhaps, more than most, unfairly burdened by all of this tainted history. But just hours after his dominant solo win on the Col d’Aubisque, the Chicken was sent packing, his team having come under increasing pressure for much of the previous week following reports that Rasmussen had lied about his whereabouts to avoid doping tests during the build-up to the Tour.
In 2012, Plugge was keen to start afresh after years of doping scandals, an approach epitomised by the team’s ‘Blanco’ moniker while in between sponsorship deals. “We started as Blanco to give cycling back to the fans,” the 52-year-old said after Vingegaard’s first Tour triumph last year.
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