Jonas Vingegaard has for the second time be welcomed home to Denmark by huge crowds in Copenhagen after recording his second victory in the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday.
The Jumbo Visma right was last year flown home by private jet, and escorted into Denmark by fighter jets and this time the enthusiasm for what he has achieved shows no signs of diminishing considering the size of the crowds that have turned out to greet him today.
"It's still hard to understand that I won the Tour de France two years in a row," he told the thousands of people gathered on the square outside Copenhagen City Hall.
"If someone had told me five years ago I don't think I would have believed them, I know I wouldn't have believed them," he added.
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told him: “I'm one of your big fans, and I'm not the only one. More than anything, you have won the hearts of all Danes, and we are very proud of you."
With a population of 5.8 million people, more than one million watched the final stage of the Tour last Sunday on Danish national TV, with the audience on TV2 peaking at 1.2 million during the final part of the stage.
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