Jonas Vingegaard has drawn the curtain on his 2024 season, with the Danish star’s Visma-Lease A Bike squad confirming that he will not line up once more at a race this 12 months.
The two-time Tour de France winner had been mooted as a potential candidate to journey the UCI Road World Championships in Zürich on the finish of September, however he will not seem once more in a aggressive race earlier than 2025.
Vingegaard scored wins at O Gran Camiño, Tirreno-Adriatico, and, within the closing race of his season, the Tour de Pologne. His foremost aim of the season, a 3rd Tour de France victory, wasn’t to be, nevertheless, after preventing valiantly to recuperate from his season-threatening crash at Itzulia Basque Country.
Visma-Lease A Bike confirmed that Vingegaard’s 2024 season had ended with the Tour de Pologne in a brief assertion issued to Velo.
“Jonas is finished for the 12 months. His spouse is giving beginning to their second youngster quickly, and as an athlete, he must recuperate after this intense spring and summer time,” the group stated.
Vingegaard completed second on the Tour this summer time following an arduous battle again to health after he suffered a damaged collarbone, damaged ribs, a pulmonary contusion, and a pneumothorax within the Itzulia mass crash.
Following his Tour marketing campaign, the place he ended up with a stage win en path to ending 6:17 down on winner Tadej Pogačar, he took half in two extra races. After a DNF on the Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa, he went on to spherical out his season with success, taking the general in Pologne by 13 seconds from Diego Ulissi.
With his racing season now over, Vingegaard is now set to take time away from the bike earlier than the lengthy highway again to the Tour de France begins later within the 12 months, with one other showdown in opposition to Pogačar more likely to be his foremost goal of 2025.