{"id":57552,"date":"2025-08-10T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57552\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:45:07","slug":"its-hard-to-say-if-joao-almeida-or-ayuso-can-beat-jonas-vingegaard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57552\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to say if Jo\u00e3o Almeida or Ayuso can beat Jonas Vingegaard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a> is a rider capable of winning in almost every terrain and he has built up a palmar\u00e8s that would be enviable to even the most successful of his rivals. However there are a few gaps that he is looking to fill and one of them is the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/european-championships\" title=\"European Championships\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European Championships<\/a>, which he confirms he will be trying to win later this fall.At his home criterium in Komenda, Slovenia, the UCI rankings leader has shared his thoughts with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtvslo.si\/sport\/kolesarstvo\/pogacar-se-je-spocil-in-razkril-karte-nato-pa-se-dobil-svoj-kriterij\/754232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RTVslo<\/a> on his return to racing that is set to the 12th of September \u201cMontreal suits me more, but I\u2019ll try to win in Quebec too. The course is now easier, but the finish is harder, so we\u2019ll give it a go. If not me, we have riders like Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez who could target it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He won&#8217;t be going through a lot of pressure until he reaches Rwanda, if nothing goes wrong as the man to beat for the World Championships that will take place at altitude and with a very difficult course that will include cobbled climbs &#8211; but is too difficult for the likes of Mathieu van der Poel, Mads Pedersen and Wout van Aert who were his closest rivals at the Tour of Flanders.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, he will be racing the European Championships in Dr\u00f4me-Ardeche, France, where he looks to add a new jersey to his palmar\u00e8s &#8211; even if there is a chance he may not wear it throughout the upcoming 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what we know, it\u2019s a climbers\u2019 course, so I\u2019ll probably be there. It\u2019s similar to a spring race Juan Ayuso won this year. But it probably means I won\u2019t be able to ride any Italian classics except Lombardia.\u201d This would go against the confirmation that Tre Valli Varesine announced a few days ago of his presence.<\/p>\n<p>Pogacar is skipping the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a where he had been planned to race since early in the year, but he will be keeping an eye on it, his teammates and his main rival who should be the man to beat there. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to say if Jo\u00e3o Almeida or Ayuso can beat Jonas Vingegaard. Without his crash at the Tour de France, Almeida certainly could have&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar is a rider capable of winning in almost every terrain and he has built up a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-57552","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\/57552","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=57552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}