Despite the new helmet trend: Vingegaard continues to fight on dirt.
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With his new time trial helmet, Jonas Vingegaard is more reminiscent of the Star Wars character Darth Vader on a bicycle. The competition is already making fun of itself. But it may be that the laughter will soon cease.
jNow start again! The Tour de France has not yet started, but Jonas Vingegaard is once again linked to space. He knows: he is not from this planet, they say, when Vingegaard outruns his competitors in the time trial like the Americans outpaced the Russians in the race to the moon. Yes, he is listed as Danish, but he is considered a foreigner. In any case, he rode the most important cycling race in the world as if he were from another planet.
At the start of the time trial in Tirreno-Adriatico, Vingegaard was not above everyone: in ninth place. But some observers want to shoot it into space. For aesthetic reasons. With a new helmet, Vingegaard is more reminiscent of the Star Wars character Darth Vader on a bicycle.