Trine Vingegaard does not know when her husband will race again. She is not sure it should happen at all in 2026.
Speaking to Feltet in Glyngøre during the Tour of Denmark, she said the family is still without answers on how quickly the Dane will recover from the fractured collarbone that ended his Tour de France on stage 15.
“But I also don’t know which races would be the obvious ones for him. And I have no idea how he will recover from that collarbone injury.”
“If he came to me and said that he didn’t want any more, I would find that understandable too.”
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Vingegaard crashed while sitting second overall behind Tadej Pogačar, returned to Denmark for successful surgery and has yet to commit to a comeback date.
‘Great sadness and enormous pride’
Trine watched the stage from home with the couple’s daughter Frida, and changed the TV channel as the crash was replayed.
“I switched the channel so Frida wouldn’t have to see it. They film for quite a long time without you knowing anything. So I switched the channel and just talked to her,” she told Feltet.
The season she summed up in a single sentence.
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“It is both with huge sadness that he abandons, but also huge pride that he wins the Giro.”
Jonas Vingegaard’s spring had been the best of his career. He won Paris-Nice, the Volta a Catalunya and then the Giro d’Italia in May, adding the maglia rosa to a trophy cabinet already built around two Tour de France titles.
‘A deeply old-fashioned industry’
Her separate Viaplay interview was aimed less at her husband’s schedule than at the sport itself.
“I think it is a deeply old fashioned industry,” she told Viaplay.
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“You have to look at the individual and consider how technology from other industries can be used intelligently.”
She pointed to altitude chambers as the obvious example.
“You can use an altitude room, set it to 3,000 metres and stay at home. That means avoiding the traveling and the stress.”
Her diagnosis of why it does not happen was blunt.
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“If you keep hiring former professional cyclists, nothing changes. Things continue to be done in the same way because that is how they have always been done.”
Trine also revisited a 2025 interview that had been read as criticism of Visma’s tactics around Wout van Aert and of the travel demanded of her husband.
“I think people misunderstood that interview. It is fundamentally about Jonas being an introvert and hating all the days spent traveling.”
Her position on his calendar, whenever he does come back, is unequivocal.
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“As long as he is happy, I do not care which races he rides. They are his dreams. I will support him completely.”
Worlds in Montreal the only prize left
The one race still on Vingegaard’s 2026 board is the World Championships road race in Montreal on 27 September, according to Cycling Up To Date.
Danish team-mate Mads Pedersen sent Vingegaard a public message on the timeline via the Lang Distance podcast.
“I hope his collarbone heals enough, and I am speaking from experience here, Jonas: your collarbone will be healed by the time we race the Worlds.”
Clavicle fractures repaired with a plate typically keep riders off the bike for six to eight weeks. That leaves Vingegaard a narrow window between recovery and the men’s road race in Montreal on 27 September.
