{"id":25468,"date":"2025-07-26T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25468\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:49:09","slug":"tour-de-france-2025-live-stage-20-route-standings-updates-as-groves-wins-with-pogacar-closing-in-on-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25468\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2025 LIVE: Stage 20 route, standings & updates as Groves wins with Pogacar closing in on title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I suffered to the line and as a reward we get a Tour stage’published at 16:05 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

16:05 BST<\/p>\n

\"KadenImage source, EPA<\/p>\n

Stage winner Kaden Groves said: “There are so many emptions to win here. The team, we came here with so many different plans with Jasper [Philipsen] and Mathieu [van der Poel].<\/p>\n

“In the end, I get my own opportunities and they haven\u2019t gone the right way. But today I had super legs. I just suffered to the line and as a reward we get a Tour stage.<\/p>\n

“The team gave me a free role in the last few days. We weren\u2019t sure if I should go for it today or wait until tomorrow. But when the rain falls, I always have a super feeling normally, in the cold weather. It\u2019s my first time winning solo – and it\u2019s in a Tour stage. Pretty incredible.<\/p>\n

“There’s so much pressure at the Tour. Having won in the Vuelta and the Giro, I always get asked whether I’m good enough to win in the Tour – and now I’ve shown them.<\/p>\n

“I tried to play my cards right and get into an early move. But the uphill start made that incredibly difficult. When I made the decision, I knew that [Matteo] Jorgenson and [Tim] Wellens would watch each other, so I tried to distance myself form them.<\/p>\n

“Then after the crash, [Frank] van den Broek goes full, so I closed that. Then him and Jake Stewart watched each other and I had a gap with 16km to go, so I rode full until the final 200m. I’m going to celebrate with my team tonight and I’ll enjoy the Champs-Elysees tomorrow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I suffered to the line and as a reward we get a Tour stage’published at 16:05 British Summer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-25468","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\/25468","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=25468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}