{"id":27404,"date":"2025-07-27T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27404\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:06:09","slug":"theres-no-beef-wellens-and-jorgenson-downplay-uae-visma-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27404\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s no beef\u201d \u2013 Wellens and Jorgenson downplay UAE-Visma tension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Pogacar is set to win the 2025 Tour de France<\/a> for the
\nfourth time, sealing his place in cycling history ahead of Jonas Vingegaard.
\nThe final stage today will bring an end to a brutal three-week contest defined
\nby exhaustion, pressure, and increasing tension, particularly between
\nVingegaard\u2019s Team Visma | Lease a Bike and Pogacar\u2019s UAE Team Emirates. Matteo
\nJorgenson, a key Visma rider, has battled illness throughout the race but still
\nfought to be part of the breakaway on Saturday. As tempers frayed and energy
\nreserves dwindled, he found himself repeatedly trading attacks with UAE\u2019s Tim
\nWellens.<\/p>\n

Despite the cat-and-mouse battle between the two, both
\nriders dismissed the idea that personal conflict or team animosity drove their
\nmoves. \u201cI don’t know about the beef, I don’t think it exists,\u201d Jorgenson told Cycling
\nWeekly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m sure it makes for good headlines, but Tim and I… we
\njust wanted to be in the break clearly today and we showed our cards quite
\nearly. Already to get in the break we used up all our bullets and we didn’t
\nhave a lot left because it has been a long Tour, and we’ve both done a lot for
\nour teams. In the end, we found ourselves dropped together. There was no
\nanimosity between us.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Wellens echoed that sentiment, saying, \u201cToday was super
\nhard, the beginning there were maybe 40 riders with all the favourites, and
\nthen we went away again with three riders – myself and Jorgenson and the Ark\u00e9a
\nrider [Ewen Costiou] I don’t remember the name of – and we kill ourselves a
\nlittle bit to ride in front of the breakaway and then when the final began, I
\nfelt we were pretty tired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite what the riders say, there have been many times over
\nthe course of the last three weeks where it appeared the two teams were
\nirritating each other. From Pogacar chasing down all of Jorgenson\u2019s attacks, to
\nWout van Aert having some stern words to say about the world champion on the
\nrest day, there has undoubtedly been tension. But will that all be laid to rest
\nnow, as the race enters the final day and returns to Paris?<\/p>\n

The constant counterattacks between Jorgenson and Wellens
\ncaught attention during yesterday\u2019s stage, but both riders insisted it wasn\u2019t
\ntactical hostility. \u201c[It was] two defeated men talking, we didn’t have much air
\nto speak in the race so I just wanted to tell him that I wasn’t playing games,
\nand he also wasn’t. We were just trying our best,\u201d Jorgenson explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom my side there’s no beef,\u201d he added. \u201cWe were racing
\nagainst each other, but I don’t see any beef.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both admitted their strength wasn\u2019t enough to carry them to
\nthe finish. \u201cWellens and I spent our bullets pretty early, and we never
\nrecovered,\u201d Jorgenson said. \u201cI could tell the whole day that I didn’t have the
\nlegs to win, and I could tell that Kaden [Groves] was super strong. I tried to
\nget ahead early, I knew quite quickly that the legs were not going to come
\naround. I think the strongest guys made it up there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wellens agreed they were spent before the real finale began.
\n\u201cThe problem was both me and Jorgenson were a little bit \u00e0 bloc, we had the
\nsame level today but it was difficult. When Jorgenson attacked he put me
\ntotally on the limit, even if he went on the limit himself, that’s his
\nbusiness, but I asked him to hold on and we could work together for the logs,
\nbut I don’t think we had the legs to win. When Groves went for it, with a
\nminute’s advantage, that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar is set to win the 2025 Tour de France for the fourth time, sealing his place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-27404","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\/27404","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=27404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}