{"id":816175,"date":"2026-07-21T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816175\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:47:08","slug":"vingegaard-explains-reasons-for-his-tour-de-france-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816175\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard explains reasons for his Tour de France crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> Vingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France on Sunday. The Danish rider from Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a> hit the deck and broke his collarbone. It was a major blow for him, his team, and the Tour de France. The unfortunate climber has commented on his crash for the first time, and also discussed the possible role of his overnight doping control.Things went wrong on Sunday\u2019s final climb. It was Vingegaard himself who was the first to crash in a turn he had underestimated. Isaac Del Toro also fell, but the Dane came off worst. He broke his collarbone and had to say goodbye to the Tour<\/a>. He told TV2<\/a> how he\u2019s doing now. \u201cI\u2019m doing surprisingly well. We approached a roundabout a little too fast, and suddenly my front wheel skidded.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a lot of speculation about exactly what went wrong in that one turn. Vingegaard considered the role of the motorcycles leading the peloton. \u201cMaybe the motorcyclist made a mistake,\u201d he says. \u201cBut we can\u2019t rely blindly on the motorcycles. We have to make our own decisions. People make mistakes; there\u2019s nothing we can do about that now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more below the video!<\/p>\n

Vingegaard on the doping test: ‘It’s quite possible that it had an impact’<\/p>\n

All morning, the peloton was abuzz with talk of the overnight doping tests for Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. The Dane was woken up at 2 a.m. to provide a urine sample. After the race, Pogacar drew a connection between his disrupted sleep and the crash. \u201cMaybe you\u2019re less focused when your sleep has been ruined?\u201d he wondered aloud.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard responded. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that it didn\u2019t do any good\u2014you could certainly say that. Whether that\u2019s the reason, I don\u2019t dare to speculate. It\u2019s quite possible that it did have an impact. But I can\u2019t say that for certain. I don\u2019t want to blame it on that, because it\u2019s a cycling race, and accidents just happen in cycling races. So I don\u2019t dare give an answer to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, just as the crucial third week begins, Visma | Lease a Bike must continue without its star rider. He sees his dream of the yellow jersey\u2014after a new, daring preparation\u2014shattered. \u201cOf course, it\u2019s unfortunate that my Tour has to end this way, but that\u2019s just how it goes in racing. Fortunately, it\u2019s only a broken collarbone. I do feel the pain, but luckily I\u2019ve been given painkillers, so I\u2019m okay,\u201d he concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard Vingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France on Sunday. The Danish rider from Visma |…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,5900,82,262636,10761],"class_list":["post-816175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026","tag-visma-lease-a-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816175","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=816175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}