Jonas Vingegaard will skip the World Championships in Rwanda and instead target the European Championships road race in France on October 5 as his season finale. He plans to start the Vuelta a España in Turin on August 23 as a favourite for overall victory. Racing two Grand Tours in one season introduced uncertainty, prompting selection of the later continental championships to allow recovery time after the Vuelta. The European course in Drôme will feature rivals Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel. Vingegaard will not contest the time trial or race Il Lombardia, limiting head-to-head meetings with Pogačar to Dauphiné, Tour and Europeans.
No, actually, yeah, we decided not to go to the Worlds. It doesn't really fit into the plans,
We have decided, though, that we want to go for the Europeans instead. Of course, you need to be really fresh and everything to go to the World Championships this year - it really requires a lot from the rider who's participating.
With not knowing how I'm going to come out of this Vuelta, and with how I experience it now, then we decided that it was better to to not do it and then say 'I still want to do the European Championships and that I can do that instead', then I'll have some time after the Vuelta to focus on that.
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