{"id":17565,"date":"2025-07-23T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/17565\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:23:08","slug":"i-cant-stand-riders-who-try-to-lay-down-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/17565\/","title":{"rendered":"I can\u2019t stand riders who try to lay down the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get it. Having to take care of the yellow jersey while also performing your other duties, team orders and more, one can quickly snap. <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/nils-politt\" title=\"Nils Politt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nils Politt<\/a> tried to play it cool during stage 16. When a large breakaway was already off, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/uae-team-emirates-xrg\" title=\"UAE Team Emirates - XRG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UAE Team Emirates &#8211; XRG<\/a> teammate of Tadej Pogacar would&#8217;ve been more than happy to let the group go, but more attacks came. The unhappy German would thus roll up to the front to enforce ceasefire.<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/thomas-voeckler\" title=\"Thomas Voeckler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Voeckler<\/a>, former professional and now an expert for the French TV, was outraged at the display. &#8220;There&#8217;s no worse attitude, in an arrogant way. It&#8217;s often the domestiques, not the leaders, who show up like that. I can\u2019t stand riders who try to lay down the law. Not so long ago, he was struggling in the mountains.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We get it. Having to take care of the yellow jersey while also performing your other duties, team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-17565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565","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=17565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}