Le Danois Jonas Vingegaard de l'équipe Visma Lease a Bike à l'arrivée de la 19e étape de ce Tour de France 2024 à Isola 2000.
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00:00Sorry, could you... Thank you.
00:18Okay, thank you.
00:20Yanis Mateus, Jorgensen said to us there, well, you'd sort of communicated, you weren't on a great day.
00:26I mean, what was your assessment of your condition today?
00:29Yeah, I was, as you say, I wasn't on a good day.
00:35Halfway through the stage I had to switch my mindset from trying to go for the win.
00:41And that was also the reason we had Mateu and Wilco in the first place, to have satellite riders, if I wanted to go.
00:48But then, yeah, I had to switch my mindset and instead of attacking, then try to follow instead.
00:55Then we gave the chance to Mateu that he could try to go for the stage and he did an incredible job.
01:01Unfortunately, he was caught in the end, but that's how it is.
01:06Do you feel your battery is running a little bit low?
01:08That maybe you're suffering from this sort of accelerated preparation that you had to undertake?
01:13Yeah, I think maybe something is catching up now.
01:17I think it's normal with only one and a half months of preparation.
01:22I also said it from the start, it would be crazy if I could fight for the win with one and a half months.
01:29But I did it for two and a half weeks and now the fight for the win is over, but for the second and third place it's not over.
01:37Jonas, how brutal is this year's Tour de France and how super is Tadej Pogacar in this year's edition?
01:44Yeah, I mean, I think he's on a super high level.
01:47I mean, I was also on a super high level the first two weeks and then now a bit less.
01:53But yeah, I think in general the whole second and third week is super, super hard.
01:59And yeah, now it's another two days and I just have to try to do my best to stay in the second place.
02:06And it's just got another two days. Tomorrow's 4,000 meters of climbing.
02:10How do you go to bed tonight? How do you think about tonight with tomorrow ahead?
02:16Yeah, I think I will sleep pretty well because I'm a bit tired. So it won't be a problem.
02:23No, I think tomorrow will probably be the same for me, that I will try to follow Remco again and focus more on that.
02:33I have to. I mean, I know I said before that I wanted to risk the second place for the victory.
02:40But when you have the legs that I have at the moment, then you have to try to settle for second.
02:49Given that you've only had one and a half months of preparation after that crash,
02:53you came into this knowing that you're in second place at this point, already with a stage victory in the bag.
02:58Would you have been satisfied? And is it hard now being so close to the yellow jersey yet so far?
03:04I mean, even if you would have told me that I would just be on the podium at the moment, I would be very, very happy.
03:13As I said, the whole preparation has been really far from ideal.
03:19So that I'm in this position with one stage win by now, it's something that I could only dream about before the tour.
03:33You