Vingegaard: It took two years to get back to pre-crash form

After his stage 16 win at the Giro d'Italia, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) reflected on the way his career-threatening crash at the 2024 Itzulia Basque Country has impacted him the past two seasons. The two-time Tour de France winner spent quite some time getting back to form. "I think the Itzulia crash put me back way more than I initially thought it did. It took me more or less two years to just get back to the same level. When I crashed, I was on a really good upward curve, and my level was increasing a lot back then," he said. "I'm just happy that I'm now back to the same level or maybe even better than ever."