{"id":546376,"date":"2026-07-17T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/546376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:26:14","slug":"tadej-pogacar-it-was-even-better-for-us-to-have-tom-in-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/546376\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar: &#8220;It was even better for us to have Tom in the front&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was a really tough day, a fast one, and I\u2019m happy that it\u2019s over. You need to think quick and today we managed things well. It was all good, we had everything more or less under control. We knew it was gonna be a tough day for us anyway. But in the end, it played much better than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>It was even better for us to have Tom [Pidcock] in the front because other teams had to chase. We could sit on the wheels a bit in the last 30 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Markstein is a nice place and I\u2019m really looking forward riding it again tomorrow and to enjoy the crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/50a8b.jpeg\" class=\"js-jzoom\" role=\"button\" data-modal-type=\"image\" data-modal-class=\"modal__box--gutter is-modal-white\" data-modal-width=\"1200\" data-modal-height=\"auto\" data-xtclick=\"article::image::zoom\" data-clicktype=\"A\"><br \/>\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure__image img--responsive lazyItem js-lazy\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&quot;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 0 1200 800&quot;%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/50a8b.jpeg|https:\/\/img.aso.fr\/core_app\/img-cycling-tdf-jpg\/e13-033\/74977\/0:0,1200:800-2400-0-70\/a9220\" alt=\"17\/07\/2026 - Tour de France 2026 - \u00c9tape 13 - Dole \/ Belfort (205,8 km) - Tadej POGACAR (UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><br \/>\n                                17\/07\/2026 &#8211; Tour de France 2026 &#8211; \u00c9tape 13 &#8211; Dole \/ Belfort (205,8 km) &#8211; Tadej POGACAR (UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG) \u00a9 A.S.O.\/Thomas Maheux<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was a really tough day, a fast one, and I\u2019m happy that it\u2019s over. You need to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-546376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}