{"id":533222,"date":"2026-07-04T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533222\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:43:08","slug":"tour-de-france-2026-jonas-vingegaard-in-yellow-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533222\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2026: Jonas Vingegaard in yellow in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard took the yellow jersey on the opening stage of the Tour de France following a tense team time trial.<\/p>\n

Two-time Tour winner Vingegaard finished the 19.6km course in 21 minutes, 47 seconds – eight seconds ahead of Italy’s Filippo Ganna of the British Netcompany Ineos Cycling team.<\/p>\n

Favourite for the overall win Tadej Pogacar finished third, 12 seconds down on Vingegaard for his UAE Team Emirates-XRG team.<\/p>\n

Pogacar, 27, is looking to try to become the equal most successful rider in the Tour’s history, alongside Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.<\/p>\n

On a hot evening in Barcelona for the Tour’s Catalonia-based Grand Depart, the race’s first team time trial for seven years saw teams ride in a ‘chain’ formation to establish the quickest time through the city by protecting their lead rider from the wind resistance – with each squad’s seven support riders eventually peeling off to let their team leader cross the line alone.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard, 29, a time trial specialist, has returned to top form since a serious crash in 2024 in the build-up to the Tour caused injuries to his lungs.<\/a><\/p>\n

As part of his recovery to be able to compete with Pogacar’s explosive style of riding, Vingegaard has won cycling’s other two three-week Grand Tours, including last year’s protest-hit Vuelta a Espana and May’s Giro d’Italia, in which he won by more than five minutes overall.<\/a><\/p>\n

“‘It’s the perfect start,” said Vingegaard, of the Visma-Lease a Bike team. “I didn’t have to do much. To take yellow for me personally after the past few years… it’s nice for me to experience it again. It’s something special.”<\/p>\n

While Pogacar will not be too concerned to lose out to the only rider who is considered able to stop him winning a fifth Tour, the Slovenian will know he is racing against his main rival in the modern era on his best form since 2023.<\/p>\n

The rider largely considered the third best in the world, Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel finished fifth for his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team, 19 seconds down. <\/p>\n

France’s big hope for overall victory, 19-year-old Paul Seixas of the Decathlon-CMA CGM team finished tenth, 39 seconds off the pace.<\/p>\n

The last French rider to win the men’s Tour de France was Hinault in 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard took the yellow jersey on the opening stage of the Tour de France following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-533222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}