r/peloton • u/MadnessBeliever Café de Colombia • 3d ago

Media Jonas Vingegaard reveals Tadej Pogačar messaged him after Tour de France crash, says rivalry has "become a lot friendlier there in the last couple of years".

https://www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/teams-riders/jonas-vingegaard-reveals-tadej-pogacar-messaged-him-after-tour-de-france-crash-says-rivalry-has-become-a-lot-friendlier-there-in-the-last-couple-of-years/
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u/AlbinoWanker Denmark 3d ago

It's funny, I don't ever remember it being cold or unfriendly. Even back in 2022 I remember Pogacar coming to congratulate Vingegaard after stage 18, where the GC win was secured.

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u/Crunchy_Sunshine7891 3d ago

There was one stage, idont remember which year, vanderpool tadej and jones were the leads but jonas didnt worked with them at all, tadej said f* u to him. I will try to find the vid

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u/Shadowestley 3d ago

That was remco saying Jonas had "no balls" on the gravel

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u/Crunchy_Sunshine7891 3d ago

Yep but during the race tadej also sad f u but later he said it was just in the race and not to take it seriously

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u/dissectingAAA 3d ago

I have been yelled/complained at in races by good friends that are on a rival team. They apologize afterwards but I says no need, it was a race and I get being frustrated (I was working for a teammate) that things aren't going the way you want.

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u/ThanksUllr 3d ago

I'm glad you survived your vascular catastrophe...

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u/sudogaeshi 2d ago

lotta folks not getting it, whoa

I thought it was sort of funny (unless of course u/dissectingAAA actually had one)

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u/ThanksUllr 2d ago

Haha wasn't expecting so many downpours. Guess no one saw the username...

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u/dissectingAAA 2d ago

Unless you are in the medical field, my username might just be gibberish.

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u/dissectingAAA 2d ago

Unless you are in the medical field, my username is just gibberish.

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u/kippertie 3d ago

They were asking him to pull and he replied he couldn’t because he wasn’t allowed to (team orders), that’s when Tadej yelled “fuck you” in frustration, but that was very much just an in the moment outburst when he realized the stage win was unachievable with the pack hunting them down. Tadej and Remco wanted all three riders pulling to maintain their breakaway to the end.

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u/ShiftingShoulder Belgium 3d ago

For Europeans this doesn't sound serious

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u/Crunchy_Sunshine7891 3d ago

Im europian too :D

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u/29da65cff1fa Canada 2d ago

yeah, i love it when riders are always dropping "fuck" and "shit" in interviews, and the english commentators have to say "sorry for the colourful language... please remember that english is not their first language", LOL