{"id":821526,"date":"2026-07-23T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821526\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:12:09","slug":"there-are-bodies-everywhere-tadej-pogacar-plays-down-wave-of-illness-within-uae-camp-at-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821526\/","title":{"rendered":"‘There are bodies everywhere’ \u2013 Tadej Poga\u010dar plays down wave of illness within UAE camp at Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> has played down any notion that his team is crumbling around him at this Tour de France<\/a>, putting a positive spin on a day in which two more of his teammates went down<\/a> with illness.<\/p>\n

After Adam Yates suffered terribly with stomach problems<\/a> on stage 17, UAE Team Emirates-XRG played down any talk of widespread illness ahead of stage 18, the first of a trio of mountain stages to finish the battle for the yellow jersey.<\/p>\n

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However, it soon became clear that was not the case, as Brandon McNulty<\/a> and Tim Wellens<\/a> both started to struggle early in the stage to the Orci\u00e8res-Merlette ski resort. McNulty did not finish the stage, becoming the first rider down for UAE at this Tour, while Wellens only narrowly made the time cut as the last rider over the line.<\/p>\n

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McNulty and Wellens are understood to have throat issues<\/a>, rather than the same gastrointestinal issues that Yates has.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really sad that today Brandon felt so bad and could not finish. We will miss him the next two days,\u201d Poga\u010dar said in his yellow jersey press conference after the stage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut yeah, Felix [Grossschartner] is riding super well, Nils [Politt] also, Isaac [Del Toro] is amazing. Adam is getting better, Tim also. If I put on him a bit of motivation then he always grabs it and goes through all the pain. Florian [Vermeersch] can be helpful from the start.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tour now heads for a double dose of Alpe d\u2019Huez, with Friday\u2019s stage 19 taking the traditional hairpinned route up the famous mountain and Saturday\u2019s monstrous stage approaching via the Col de Sarenne after three other high-mountain ascents.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTomorrow will be go with the flow, we survive tomorrow the stage, try to come to Alpe d\u2019Huez and see what we can do,\u201d Poga\u010dar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we can manage. It\u2019s the third week, all the teams are a bit suffering. There are bodies everywhere, on a stage like today already. We will keep fighting, and I believe we can do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam is getting better, but the problem is only he cannot refuel fast enough,\u201d he added on France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be okay, maybe not tomorrow, a big performance<\/a> of Adam, but hopefully Saturday will be pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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