The story of Jonas Vingaard (26 years old) has all the ingredients to be immortalized in a movie hollywood. If instead of Danish the filmmaker was American Oliver Stone I would have centered a history of the seventh art here. native of hillersleva town of 370 souls in the northwest of Denmarkin the region of nordjyllandJonas is gradually knocking on the door of success in cycling, since 2015 he has been running in Weird CK until winning two editions of Tour de France and do the same this year with great superiority.
They say that the easy thing does not come, but to stay, but Jonas showed that he is not afraid of vertigo to win the 110th edition of the race with authority and also affirms in a small mouth – he is not a very talkative person and stands out for his introverted character – that he wants to win the Tour again next year, a triplet that did not occur the best days in cycling in the race. Chris Froome (2015-2017). There was a lot of talk about Pogacar’s time in the Tour and just when it looked like Tadej was going to age for a season, a curly, white Viking of normal height (1.75 m.) came in from the cold to change history.
Jonas’ perseverance probably came from the many doors that were closed to him as a young man and the many hours he spent cleaning fish on his father’s fish farm. hansthlom. Like many children, children vingegaard he wanted to be a footballer, he liked the Liverpool, but when he is chasing a ball he is faced with a handicap that he has to deal with as a runner: his height. And it was that “I was so short that nobody passed me the ball and I didn’t do it too well”, he remembered in his day.
Soon, and to his surprise, he will find his true passion one day when his father takes him to see a stage of lap denmark near his hometown. “I liked it so much that I told my parents that I wanted to be a cyclist.” His first club was ‘The CycleRing’. Again, he had to win over the doubters. “He struggled to stand out and he didn’t win. The weight was so small that the trainers were afraid that the wind would throw it away”, his father recalled. But he didn’t throw in the towel and travel by motorhome as a teenager with his parents, Claus and Karinain Alps they ended up cementing their cycling condition. His father made it clear on the outings they made together: “By the time I reached the top, Jonas went up and down five times.” His life changed in the summer of 2018, when a Jumbo team scout signed him to Team ColoQuick. They took risks and succeeded.
Educated, sensitive -he could not avoid tears in Dauphin Criterionin the attack of a heartless in a children’s park in Annecy, “My family is there and we often go to Annecy” – Vingegaard is a family man, who surrounds himself with his family and his loved ones are his pillar.
His parents traveled this year to the Tour in a motorhome as before and his partner Trine Hansen –eleven years older than him and worked in the marketing department in the team where he grew up–, with his two-year-old daughter Frida, was religiously waiting for him at the end of the stages of the Tour to kiss him and dissolve in a loving embrace. They are a happy family.
Source: La Verdad
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