{"id":10085,"date":"2025-07-20T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/10085\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:31:13","slug":"theres-still-plenty-to-fight-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/10085\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s still plenty to fight for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/jonas-vingegaard\" title=\"Jonas Vingegaard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> tried<a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/arensman-triumphs-with-spectacular-stage-win-in-the-tour-on-a-day-when-evenepoel-withdraws-and-pogacar-lays-low\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> on Saturday to test the legs <\/a>of his main rival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a>, in the Pyrenees, but ultimately lost a few seconds. Nevertheless, the Dane from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Visma | Lease a Bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike was satisfied with his day after losing considerable time on Hautacam a few days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Vingegaard attacked twice in the last three kilometers, but in the final few hundred meters, he was countered by Pogacar. The Slovenian tried once himself, but couldn&#8217;t break away from Vingegaard with that acceleration. In the end, he succeeded, increasing his lead to 4 minutes and 13 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expected Tadej to attack on the last climb,\u201d the Dane told Eurosport, among others. \u201cOn the penultimate climb, they pushed hard, so I thought they wanted to go for the stage. On the final climb, I decided to go for it myself, because you have to try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more below the photo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/aanval-vingegaard.jfif@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto\" alt=\"aanval-vingegaard\"\/>Vingegaard compliments Arensman\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like the time trial, so overall I&#8217;m very happy with how it went,\u201d said an exhausted-looking Vingegaard after the final stage of a tough triptych in the mountains. \u201cThis is one of the hardest mountain stages I&#8217;ve ever done. It was very tough, but I&#8217;m sure everyone felt the same way. It was great to be able to ride the final climb like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visma | Lease a Bike had Simon Yates and Sepp Kuss in the breakaway, but ultimately, they were unable to do any work for their leader. \u201cWe actually wanted to go for the win with Simon and Sepp, but they couldn&#8217;t keep up with Arensman,\u201d said Vingegaard, who also had kind words for the day&#8217;s winner: Thymen Arensman. \u201cHe rode well, especially on the last climb. Congratulations to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more below the photo<\/p>\n<p>Niermann not giving up yet\u201cWe wanted to try and win from the breakaway,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamvismaleaseabike.com\/race-report\/news\/team-visma-lease-a-bike-gains-confidence-in-grueling-pyrenean-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explained <\/a>Head of Racing Grischa Niermann. \u201cWith Sepp and Simon up there, we were in a good position, but unfortunately they ran into a very strong Arensman. Jonas tried something late on and looked impressive,\u201d said the German.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, we expected UAE to go for the stage and attack, but in the end, it was Jonas who took the initiative. He\u2019s very motivated and riding super strong. We know there\u2019s one guy who\u2019s a little better, but we won\u2019t just settle for second place. There\u2019s still plenty to fight for,\u201d he said, sounding motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard tried on Saturday to test the legs of his main rival, Tadej Pogacar, in the Pyrenees,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-10085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}