Jonas Vingegaard is not giving up at the Tour de France despite the 3 minutes gap he needs to overcome in the general classification. On the contrary, the leader of Visma continues to be fully confident he can win the yellow jersey.
“When someone is better, you just have to accept that. He is better at the now. Hopefully we can turn it around in the third week,” Vingegaard said during Visma-Lease A Bike’s rest day press conference.
“I will not simply accept this result, I wont go down without a fight. I’ve won the Tour de France twice. I’m not here to ride for second place. I’ll do everything I can to try to take the victory.
“He looks very strong but we’ve also seen in the past that he has bad days. Maybe he will have that in the in the third week. You never know.”
“I will never crack mentally. I’ll keep fighting, doing everything I can. We’ll see in a week what the result will be. I haven’t lost faith at all and I still believe that it can be possible. We showed it the last two years. We just have to keep trying and keep believing in it.
Vingegaard believes that he can match Pogacar’s power in the third week and in the years to come.
“It’s not because he’s like way better. So I think for sure, in the future or maybe even in this Tour de France, that I can improve a little bit, then it will be more equal and so maybe we’ll be at the same level.
