{"id":1690327,"date":"2026-01-27T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1690327"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:25:14","slug":"jonas-vingegaard-crashes-while-being-tailed-by-amateur-during-training-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1690327","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard Crashes While Being Tailed by Amateur during Training Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Updated January 27, 2026 12:41AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Jonas Vingegaard was left bloodied up after he crashed while trying to drop a tailing fan on a training ride Monday.<\/p>\n

According to the Strava file of local rider Pedro Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez, the Danish superstar fell on a descent outside of M\u00e1laga, Spain.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was going down fast just to leave me behind and ended up on the ground,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez wrote.<\/p>\n

A second rider commented on Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s post claiming\u00a0he saw Vingegaard with his face \u201cbleeding in two places\u201d after the incident.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard\u2019s Visma-Lease a Bike confirmed the news Tuesday morning to Velo <\/em>before posting the update on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cJonas Vingegaard crashed during training on Monday. Fortunately, he is OK and did not sustain any serious injuries,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

The news comes amid a surge in cycling super-fans chasing pros out on training rides to capture reels and selfies for social media.<\/p>\n

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Only last month, social media footage showed Mathieu van der Poel nearly crashing when he accelerated into an impromptu two-up sprint with an amateur rider. Tadej Poga\u010dar blew up the internet last summer when he wore a \u201cdo not disturb\u201d jersey while out on a coffee ride.<\/p>\n

Visma-Lease a Bike urged cyclists to show restraint.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general, as a team we would like to urge fans on bikes to always put safety first. For both your own and others\u2019 well-being, please allow riders to train and give them as much space and peace as possible,\u201d the team wrote in a statement for Velo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Vingegaard is currently scheduled to debut his season on February 16 at the UAE Tour as he builds toward an audacious Giro-Tour double.<\/p>\n

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Vingegaard bleeding and angry after training incident<\/h2>\n
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Local rider detailed Vingegaard\u2019s crash on Strava<\/span> (Image: Strava)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Malaga local Fern\u00e1ndez, Vingegaard crashed Monday while on a training ride outside of the Spanish city.<\/p>\n

Fern\u00e1ndez uploaded a ride accompanied by an image of Vingegaard and the following blurb:<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou can be professional, but you can also be humble. Jonas fell while trying to leave me behind as we were going down the Queen\u2019s Fountain. When I stopped to ask how he was, he got angry with me for following him down. He was going down fast just to leave me behind and ended up on the ground,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t do this for a living; I\u2019m an amateur like most people, so I don\u2019t understand his anger as a professional about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another local known on Strava as \u201cS-enduro\u201d added further detail after he apparently witnessed the aftermath of the crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou both passed me coming down, and as I was almost at the last bend, I found Jonas by the guardrail, his face bleeding in two places. He must have hit it hard to drag his face along the ground. I stopped and asked him if he needed help, and he told me no, to go away, very angry,\u201d they wrote in the comments..<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I understand. It\u2019s clear he\u2019s the professional and responsible for how he rides, but I also think that people like him, who are professionals and have so much at stake, should be given their space and respected.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey risk their lives, their salaries, and the livelihoods of many people around them. It seems to me he felt a bit pressured and went down faster than he should have on a road he doesn\u2019t know well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vingegaard has to avoid amateurs for another two weeks before he flies out to the UAE to kick-start his season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Updated January 27, 2026 12:41AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source URL: https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/vingegaard-crash-tailed-amateur\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated January 27, 2026 12:41AM Jonas Vingegaard was left bloodied up after he crashed while trying to drop a tailing fan on a training ride Monday. According to the Strava file of local rider Pedro Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez, the Danish superstar fell on a descent outside of M\u00e1laga, Spain. \u201cHe was going down fast just to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1690327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}