It took him a while to persuade him, but now Matteo Jorgenson completely believes that his team has told him for a while: he can win a big tour.
After obtaining Visma Lease a Bike’s outstanding first season in 2024, Americans showed his multi-functionality by winning the dwarf’s door Vlaandren, and then won Paris-Nice, and then in France in France Tour de France won the eighth place, and Jorgenson’s stock rose sharply.
The 25 -year -old man used to think that if he tried to successfully challenge GC in Cycling’s three largest stage games, his height (6 feet 2 inches) would rely on him. He told him: “I think that for a person with a figure, the energy demand for three weeks is a great challenge.” Riding a bicycle every week Last April.
However, with the encouragement of his coaches and teammates, including the two Tourism French bicycle champion Jonas Vingegaard, the latter recently said: “Of course I believe he can win a game”, ” Jorgenson enters the 2025 season, which is more faithful than ever.
“This is 100 %,” Jorgenson was born in California, but grew up in Edhata. “And I’m not afraid of saying that. This is the goal I put it on the horizon.
“Now it is impossible for me, but the people around me say that I have the ability, and I think I should believe them better than me.”
However, Jossen was not rushing to realize his dream: with his further success in his classic and one -day competition, his grand tour in 2025 will once again support Vingegaard.
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“Winning a big tour is one of the perfect carrots chasing. I need to reach there for a long time. I also asked the team to ask space,” the Americans added. “I don’t want to go this year, starting from this year Giro d’ITALIA And become the leader there. They provided me with this, but I was not ready.
“I need to help Jonas and find myself in the tour. I hope I can make progress and keep it. I think I have three days [at the 2024 Tour] I waste a lot of time. If I can restrict this and conduct a grand tour in the days when I have no bad or cruel days, then I think in 2026, I can continue and lead a team. “
So far, Jorgenson won in Paris-NICE, where he overthrew four seconds on the last day to his fellow compatriots Brandon McNulty, from Thunder Remco Fistepoel won 30 seconds.
It was the success of the game in the sun that Joensen re -evaluated his ability.他说：“在巴黎- 尼斯（Paris-Nice）这样的比赛中，我真的从来没有相信我可以赢得这样的比赛。” “我从来没有在雷达上。我认为我没有能力，所以这就是为什么Last year was a reason for me.
“I have realized what I have never thought about to achieve, so after that, it is possible? I have a lot of ideas of survival and figure out what I can do. The only way I work well is that I set it. The goal that I can’t achieve-this is why I have made me through the difficult moments.
“This is the process of winning Paris-Nice to re-structure my brain and find new goals that inspire and motivate me. Search for my work in the work.
Jorgenson will start his 2025 season from the Spring Classic of Nordic, although he will defend his Paris Nice Championship. The practice shows that few riders can perform well in one day and many days, but Jorgenson refutes this concept. He said, “I actually rejected this idea.”
“I think I am the kind of rider that can be done at the same time, and I think I have no compromise between classic works in spring, and then compete for GC in a big tour. From the perspective of weight, training and strength, it is indeed. There is no difference.
“I trained in the same way-I think this is nothing, and I think this has increased a lot. Any game I participated in Belgium is much more than the stage for participating in the big tour, because more things happened, because more things happened. And tactics are more complicated.
