{"id":803004,"date":"2026-07-15T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803004\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:09:12","slug":"vingegaard-shrugs-off-latest-tour-de-france-time-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803004\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard shrugs off latest Tour de France time loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard lost more ground to Tour de France leader Tadej Poga\u010dar on Stage 10<\/a>, but the two-time champion wasn\u2019t discouraged after another difficult day in the Massif Central. In fact, he sounds surprisingly positive going into the next week-and-a-half of racing.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, after spending much of the finale trying to chase Poga\u010dar, Vingegaard crossed the line with the main group of favourites but was outsprinted by several rivals.<\/p>\n

He finished 12 seconds behind Remco Evenepoel, not counting bonus seconds, and ultimately gave up 44 seconds to Poga\u010dar on the day. It was another incredibly dominant performance by the world champion. It was just a few days ago that he absolutely anihilated the field on the first mountain test on the Tourmalet.<\/p>\n

Stuck at his own pace<\/p>\n

Rather than joining the sprint for the line, Vingegaard said he stuck to his own rhythm over the closing kilometres.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to ride at my own pace to the top and then all the way to the finish. They started sprinting, but I wanted to keep the same pace to the line,\u201d Vingegaard said, according to Feltet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The result leaves the Visma\u2013Lease a Bike leader more than three and a half minutes behind Poga\u010dar in the overall standings. Which is\u2026a lot. But the Dane says he\u2019s not too concerned. (I mean, there are plenty of tough stages up ahead, but still, the Slovenian has definitely had some stunning rides.)<\/p>\n

Looking ahead<\/p>\n

Despite the growing deficit, Vingegaard said he wasn\u2019t overly disappointed with his performance. He told Feltet that the punchier climbs on Stage 10 are not where he performs at his best.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt actually wasn\u2019t such a bad day. Shorter climbs like these don\u2019t suit me very well, so I had to fight today. To come away with only a small time loss, I can be satisfied,\u201d he told Feltet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked how he moves forward from another setback, Vingegaard kept his answer pretty simple.<\/p>\n

Flattish stages await<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll go to bed tonight, and tomorrow is a new day,\u201d he said, according to Feltet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So with the Tour now heading toward longer and more demanding mountain stages, will Vingegaard\u2019s plan allow him to claw back time on Pogi? Before those mountains, there\u2019s a few flat stages. There\u2019s also a decent TT coming up, just under 30 km, with a small rise before flattening out. Definitely has a Remco Evenepoel kinda feel to it, but it will still be clutch for both Pogi and Vingegaard to have a very good ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard lost more ground to Tour de France leader Tadej Poga\u010dar on Stage 10, but the two-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[112150,49,48,635,5900,82,1422],"class_list":["post-803004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-tour-de-france","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803004","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=803004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}