Jonas Vingegaard backed to 'demolish' 2025 Tour de France by Adam Blythe after Criterium du Dauphine showing - 'Everything about cycling that I love'
Published 13/06/2025 at 22:37 GMT+1
The 2025 Tour de France - live on TNT Sports and discovery+ - is once again expected to be a hard-fought battle between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard for the yellow jersey. Pogacar was the runaway winner in the latest stage of the Criterium du Dauphine, but TNT Sports' Adam Blythe has tipped Vingegaard to be successful at the Tour de France next month.
Blythe backs Vingegaard to 'demolish' Tour de France after Dauphine showing
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Adam Blythe has backed Jonas Vingegaard to "demolish" this year's Tour de France.
The Visma-Lease a Bike rider and two-time Tour de France champion was trailing in the wake of Tadej Pogacar on Stage 6 at the Criterium du Dauphine.
But TNT Sports expert Blythe has seen enough from Vingegaard to suggest he could be the frontrunner at next month's Tour de France, which will be shown live on TNT Sports and discovery+.
"I honestly think Jonas [Vingegaard] is going to demolish this Tour de France," Blythe said on TNT Sports' Ultimate Cycling Show. "I think he's going to rip it up."
In the opening stage of the Criterium du Dauphine, Vingegaard made an impressive late surge in the chaotic final six kilometres. It was ultimately in vain as Pogacar narrowly took the win, but Blythe was left extremely impressed by the nature of the attack.
Blythe added: "That is not at all his characteristics, and he was able to do that damage with one attack. I'm here for this all day long.
"That attack [in the first stage] from Vingegaard, that's cycling. I wasn't watching live, I saw the replays, and I was like, 'this is everything about cycling that I love about it'.
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Highlights: Pogacar powers to victory ahead of Vingegaard
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"Seeing these guys start to play and almost at their best, and it is play, because it's not the Tour de France, is like a little tease of what's to come."
Vingegaard has also been tipped for glory by Visma-Lease a Bike manager Richard Plugge.
"You could perhaps say that Pogacar is better on Tour of Flanders-like courses, but this is about a three-week race," Plugge said last month.
"And in our view, Jonas is better at that, to be able to handle that accumulation of fatigue, etc.
"We are mainly looking at ourselves and how we can improve our performance. Compared to last year, we have taken another big step in that regard.
"Jonas has gained minutes on Pogacar for two years in a row. Last year, after a very flawed start and a pretty bad finish, physically, Jonas was also a big competitor towards the end.
"Jonas has also made progress again. I have no reason not to believe that we can go for yellow again."
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