Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 21 - Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Elysees - France - July 23, 2023 Team Jumbo–Visma's Jonas Vingegaard wearing the yellow jersey in action during stage 21 Pool via REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard was awarded the Velo d'Or trophy for the season's best cyclist, but the Danish rider skipped the ceremony in Paris on Tuesday.
Vingegaard, who won his second Tour in a row last July, is expected to be in the French capital on Wednesday when organisers reveal the route for the 2024 Tour.
It was the first time on Tuesday that the Velo d'Or, an award first attributed in 1992, was being handed at a formal ceremony.
Dutch Demi Vollering, who won the Tour de France Femmes, won the women's Velo d'Or.
Belgian Lotte Kopecky received the women's Eddy Merckx award after notably winning the Tour of Flanders and the world champion titles.
Persons:
Jumbo – Visma's Jonas Vingegaard, Daniel Cole, Jonas Vingegaard, Vingegaard, Demi Vollering, Vingegaard's, Christophe Laporte, Bernard Hinault, Dutch Mathieu van der, Eddy Merckx, Lotte Kopecky, Julien Pretot, Christian Radnedge
Organizations:
de, REUTERS, Rights, de France, Velo, Femmes, Paris, of Flanders, Thomson
Locations:
Quentin, Yvelines, Paris, France, Danish, Dutch, Roubaix