Vingegaard - From the fish workshop to the yellow shirt Tour de France
The scene of Vingegaard packaging fish in a Danish factory, until the summer of 2018, often appears on media and social networks over the years. At that time, he was just an amateur driver. These scenes were taken by Danish D Dan Television in 2017 to introduce promising young sports stars.
After four years, Vingegaard has made great progress and rises to the ultimate glory in the bicycle racing when winning the yellow shirt and the red shirt in the end of the tour de France 2022. Tadej Pogacar - The dominant tour de France for two consecutive years.
To achieve that glory, Vingegaard experienced many hardships. For many years, he had to wake up from 4 am to do fish packaging at the port of Hanstholm and in the evening to cycle training.
The coach of Jumbo - Visma, Mr. Merijn Zeeman, admired the spirit and determination of Vingegaard when signing a contract with Denmark before the 2019 season. Seven hours a day, then cycling. This gives Vingegaard convenient when playing professionally. Maintaining a professional play is very difficult, but there is such a harder life. " .
After the coronation of Tour de France 2022 in Paris, Vingegaard - the driver from Hillerslev in northern Denmark - confirmed that he always believed he could win a yellow shirt, or at least compete in the championship. He said: "I am confident that I can win the yellow shirt after the 18th stage in Hautacam. I always believe in the victory, but after that stage, I really think that there must be a problem or something wrong to make me lose me top hit".
Vingegaard started a racing career with the Danish Coloquick racing team in May 2016, and went to the second Tour of China I - UCI level 2.1 - the same year, at the age of 19. He continued to play for Coloquick in 2017 and 2017 and 2018, combining racing and packaging fish in a Danish factory. The only victory of Vingegaard in a UCI race this time came in Giro Ciclistico Della Valle d’Aosta Mont Blanc in 2018.
"I completed my study in 2016 and then went to work. First, I worked in a place specializing in fish auction for nearly a year," Vingegaard told Eurosport channel about the process of rising professional competition, before before, before before When a tour de France 2022 took place in Copenhagen.
The 25 -year -old racer revealed that he was injured and could not work for a while. When recovering, Vingegaard moved to work in a fish trading company. He continued: "I work there until the summer of 2018, and join Jumbo - Visma in 2019. Therefore, half a year before signing a contract with Jumbo - Visma, I still do the packaging work."
When asked about the predestined relationship with the top bike racing, Vingegaard revealed: "When I was still at the fish auction, I knew there was a racer working in fishing, and he had relationships. It is for a phone number and I called to see what could be done. "
Having played football at the age of 10, Vingegaard quickly lost interest in this sport when his parents took it to see a tour of Denmark - a professional road bicycle race in Denmark. Since then, he began to be passionate about cycling and joined a local club, Thy Cykle Ring, with no more than 20 members. Here, Vingegaard was left by teammates on flat journeys, before the climbing.
"I cannot play professionally without Coloquick," Vingegaard talked about the first professional racing team. "Coloquick gives young riders the opportunity to grow and grow, and have relationships with World Tour teams. There are many Danish riders in the Jumbo-Vismma team. I have talked to them and received them and received useful advice ".
Vingegaard, who has a gentle voice, struggled with anxiety and persistent fear for a long time after joining Jumbo - Visma in 2019, causing him to pay the price in some races. But with the help of Trine's girlfriend and his teammates, the Danish crab gradually stabilized psychologically and maintaining calm as the key to outstanding progress.
"Coloquick's sports director at the time was Christian Andersen also helped me a lot when I just started my career," the new tourist De France champion added on Sticky Bottle. "And after playing professionally, my girlfriend Trine Hansen supported me. Trine had a great influence on my promotion, and I thought I couldn't do all these things without her."
The first time he attended the tour de France last year, he shone and returned second after Pogacar himself, when his teammate Primoz Roglic - the last three -year champion of Vuelta A Espana - Bicycle Racing around Spain - was eliminated out of the race. Vingegaard, thanks to that, became the first male racer to return to the first and first in two consecutive tournaments, after the German Jan Ullrich in 1996 and 1997.
Vingegaard was also the first Denmark crab to win the Tour de France after Bjarne Riis in 1996, at the time of banned substances that were used in the bike racing. In 2007, after retiring, Riis admitted to using EPO blood enhancement in the period 1993-1997, even when winning the 1996 Tour De France.
