{"id":134055,"date":"2025-09-13T07:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/134055\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:29:06","slug":"we-were-beaten-by-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/134055\/","title":{"rendered":"We were beaten by better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek): &#8220;No, not really [surprised that Jonas Vingegaard did the intermediate sprint]. I knew it would happen and we talked together. There were bonifications in that sprint, and he needs the seconds more than I need the points right now. It didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense [for me] to push there. With this hard final sprint with such an uphill in the end, I kind of expected it to be like this. Of course it\u2019s a pity not to win but Jasper [Philipsen] and his team did a perfect lead-out. Today we were beaten by better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cbe89.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\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cbe89.jpeg|https:\/\/img.aso.fr\/core_app\/img-cycling-vue-jpg\/course-e18-011\/27002\/0:0,1200:800-2400-0-70\/ca250\" alt=\"La Vuelta 2025 -  18th stage - Valladolid &gt; Valladolid (12,2 km Individual Time-Trial) - 11\/09\/2025 -\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><br \/>\n                                La Vuelta 2025 &#8211;  18th stage &#8211; Valladolid &gt; Valladolid (12,2 km Individual Time-Trial) &#8211; 11\/09\/2025 &#8211; \u00a9 Unipublic\/Sprintcycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek): &#8220;No, not really [surprised that Jonas Vingegaard did the intermediate sprint]. I knew it would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-134055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}