Feltet<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve never been super good at this kind of effort, and honestly, I think I rode pretty well today.\u201d<\/p>\nNot only did Ganna dominate the stage, but Vingegaard also lost more than a minute to Thymen Arensman. Lidl-Trek\u2019s Canuck, Derek Gee-West and Ben O\u2019Connor also posted faster rides, while the Dane finished 13th on the stage overall.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard pointed to the nature of the course as a major factor.<\/p>\n
\u201cA completely flat time trial gives bigger riders a huge advantage,\u201d he said. \u201cIt helps to have more raw power on a course like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gee-West joked about the TT saying, that it was a \u201cReally technical start, then I just stared ahead for a really long time.\u201d He also said he was quite happy with his result. The national road champ now sits eighth overall and is looking forward to the next two weeks of racing.<\/p>\n
As far as the Dane, he clawed back nearly two minutes on Afonso Eul\u00e1lio, who managed to defend the pink jersey by just 27 seconds. It was an incredible ride by the Portuguese rider.
Vingegaard did admit he would have loved to leave the day in the overall lead, but that\u2019s racing.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course it would have been nice to already have the pink jersey,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery day in that jersey is special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, he insisted his mood has not changed after what was clearly a terrible day against the clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in a good place right now,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m happy with where things are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Plus, there\u2019s all kinds of leg-breaking stages remaining. Including Wednesday. Stage 11 goes from Porcari to Chiavari. The day\u2019s race is just under 200km, but is littered with climbs. Will Eul\u00e1lio continue his dream Giro and keep the pink? If Vingegaard takes it tomorrow, that means Visma will have to defend for 9 more stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was, in Jonas Vingegaard\u2019s own words, \u201cterrible.\u201d But he is sitting pretty after the chrono, more or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[321890,64,63,784,6495,85],"class_list":["post-681422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-giro-ditalia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}