Jumbo-Visma sheltering Jonas Vingegaard from 'pressure and demands' - but say he will race again in 2022

Jumbo-Visma sporting director Grischa Niermann says Jonas Vingegaard will race again in 2022 — but only after the Tour de France champion has had a sufficient «physical and mental break». Vingegaard stunned the cycling world with his defeat of two-time champ Tadej Pogacar at the Tour, securing his advantage with a series of remarkable performances on the mountain stages, most memorably on stage 11's climb up the Col Du Granon.

Ad His triumph saw him paraded in front of thousands back in his native Denmark, and made him the subject of huge media interest. Tour de FranceHow Ten Hag helped inspire Jumbo's masterplan to topple Pogacar at Tour28/07/2022 AT 13:19 As such, Niermann and Jumbo-Visma have been keen to shelter the 25-year-old from his new-found star status ahead of his return later this year.

Vingegaard has been confirmed to ride the Tour de France Prudential Singapore Criterium between October 29-30 — alongside Britain's Mark Cavendish — but is it not yet known whether that will be his first event back, and what other races he will incorporate into his calendar during the remainder of 2022. Speaking to Cycling Weekly at the ongoing Vuelta a Espana, the final Grand Tour of the year, Niermann said: «I don’t think he [Vingegaard] has had a hard time, but of course the Tour really demanded a lot from him, and probably all of the festivities afterwards asked even more of him.

Roglic ‘hungry for more’ success at Vuelta after taking red ‘Are you stupid or what?’ – Mas confronts spectator in heated exchange »He worked towards the Tour for months and then he won it. It came with a lot of pressure, with a lot of demands from the fans, from our sponsors, from the Danish public, from the media, and now he needed a little