{"id":835697,"date":"2026-07-30T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835697\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:43:12","slug":"pogacar-dreamed-of-van-der-poel-during-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835697\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogacar Dreamed of Van der Poel During the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/mathieu-van-der-poel\" title=\"Mathieu van der Poel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mathieu van der Poel<\/a> and Tadej Poga\u010dar produced<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/mathieu-van-der-poel-and-pogacar-provide-the-action-but-van-der-poel-takes-the-victory-in-paris\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a dream finale to<\/a> the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday. The two riders have been battling each other for cycling\u2019s biggest victories for several years and clearly have enormous respect for one another. In a<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nmFZorHiHjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">behind-the-scenes video<\/a> released by his UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad, Poga\u010dar even revealed that he had dreamed about Van der Poel during the Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to his teammates at the breakfast table, Poga\u010dar explained that he had dreamed about his rival the previous night. \u201cI dreamed I was riding at the front with Van der Poel and that we went into a descent like crazy. A crazy downhill,\u201d the Slovenian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dreamed that we were riding our bikes along the guardrails\u2014the barriers that stop cars from going off the road,\u201d he continued, telling Isaac del Toro about the unusual dream with a broad smile. \u201cThen I suddenly hit the guardrail. It was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I checked my Whoop stress\u2014the device Poga\u010dar uses to monitor his sleep and health data\u2014and it was extremely high. It must have been because of that downhill dream,\u201d he added with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy stress is always very low at the beginning and in the middle of the night, but when I start dreaming in the morning, my stress goes through the roof,\u201d Poga\u010dar explained before turning towards the camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMathieu, if you\u2019re hearing this: you\u2019re causing stress in my dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video: Poga\u010dar talks about his Van der Poel dream from 3:39<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Poga\u010dar produced a dream finale to the Tour de France in Paris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,13633,82,1422,262636],"class_list":["post-835697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tour-de-france-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835697","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=835697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}