{"id":24856,"date":"2025-07-26T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24856\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T06:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:13:10","slug":"you-could-easily-say-jonas-should-have-tried-a-bit-earlier-visma-and-vingegaard-narrowly-miss-out-on-tour-de-france-stage-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24856\/","title":{"rendered":"“You could easily say Jonas should have tried a bit earlier” \u2013 Visma and Vingegaard narrowly miss out on Tour de France stage win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> came heartbreakingly close to a stage win
\non Stage 19 of the 2025 Tour de France<\/a> but had to settle for second behind
\nThymen Arensman, but ahead of Tadej Pogacar for the first time this Tour.
\nDespite finishing ahead of Pogacar on the day, Vingegaard remains in second
\noverall as the race nears its end. The Danish rider\u2019s late sprint may have cost
\nhim the win, and there\u2019s a lingering sense that with slightly different
\ntactics, the outcome might have changed. Team boss Grischa Niermann<\/a> admitted
\nthat the timing just wasn\u2019t quite right in an interview with TV2.<\/p>\n

“We knew Tadej also wanted to win and that UAE would
\nkeep the leading group at bay. On the last climb, we knew there was no point in
\nattacking early, because we wanted to go for the stage win with Jonas.”<\/p>\n

“He came very close, but in the end, he and Tadej
\nstarted their sprint a bit too late,” Niermann said, noting encouraging
\nsigns nonetheless. “That he was very strong again. Tadej tried a few times
\nat the foot of the last climb, where he tried to drop everyone, but Jonas was
\nthere and was able to join his wheel.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“He did well, and he was able to save himself a bit by
\nstaying on the wheel. He rode really well, but in the end, they couldn’t catch
\nArensman, and he didn’t win the stage,” he continued. “Maybe they
\ncould have caught Arensman if Jonas had attacked earlier, but then Tadej might
\nhave been on his wheel and could have won the sprint.”<\/p>\n

“You could easily say Jonas should have tried a bit
\nearlier, but there’s a good chance Pogacar would have been on his wheel and
\npassed him in the final meters,” the sporting director added. When asked
\nhow Vingegaard managed to finish ahead of Pogacar, the first time he has done
\nso since the sprint finish in the 2024 Tour, Niermann didn\u2019t have a clear
\nanswer.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know. You’ll have to ask him \u2013 and especially
\nTadej. Tadej had to work hard on the last climb, and that was obviously to our
\nadvantage.”<\/p>\n

Vingegaard himself admitted that his priority was the stage
\nvictory. “Of course it’s a shame. I tried to play my game on the last
\nclimb, and I was more focused on the stage win than gaining time,” he
\nsaid. “It’s a shame Thymen Arensman was there, of course. But he rode hard
\ntoday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard came heartbreakingly close to a stage win on Stage 19 of the 2025 Tour de France…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-24856","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\/24856","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=24856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}