Vingegaard lost the race, won life, and the rest of us were awarded a great gift

Dis basically nothing memorable ever happens on a Tour de France rest day that you take home in your luggage at the end of the race. But the Tour 2024 was different.

Because I will remember for a long time how Jonas Vingegaard, in a sexless conference room with bad sound in Orléans, in his usual calm way, told the outside world for the first time that he thought he was going to die, three months earlier. The afternoon when he was lying in a Basque ditch after a terrible crash. At that moment, Jonas Vingegaard would end his career if he survived.