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  "description": "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.\n\n\"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 le",
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  "textContent": "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.\n\n\"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.\n\n\"I'm just happy that I'm now back to the same level or maybe even better than ever.\"",
  "title": "Vingegaard: It took two years to get back to pre-crash form",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-26T18:13:01.621Z"
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