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Adam Becket

'Now the fight is over': Jonas Vingegaard concedes Tour de France battle for yellow, but still aims for second

Jonas Vingegaard.

Not far from where Jonas Vingegaard is from, in North Jutland, is the town of Nykøbing Mors, known, among other things, as the birthplace of the writer Aksel Sandemose. The writer lives on, half a century after his death, through the Law of Jante, or janteloven in Danish.

These ten rules essentially boil down to the following: you should not think you're anything special, and that you're not better than anyone else. It's the kind of code that many people in Jutland live by, that the collective is more important that the individual. Vingegaard has never been overly flashy, or arrogant, or even particularly passionate in his wins, but this has never been his personality type. He is calm, collected, and steady.

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