{"id":594757,"date":"2026-05-20T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594757\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:05:11","slug":"part-of-me-thinks-hes-not-been-at-100-geraint-thomas-on-jonas-vingegaards-form-after-stage-10-giro-ditalia-time-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594757\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Part of me thinks he’s not been at 100%’ \u2013 Geraint Thomas on Jonas Vingegaard’s form after stage 10 Giro d’Italia time trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netcompany-Ineos<\/a> director of racing Geraint Thomas<\/a> questioned the condition of Giro d’Italia favourite Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> (Visma-Lease a Bike), following the Dane’s slightly disappointing performance<\/a> in the stage 10 time trial.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his Watts Occurring<\/a> podcast after the stage, he said: “Jonas, I expected more from him. Maybe he’s been a bit sick or something.”<\/p>\n

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On a stage where he was counted among the favourites, Vingegaard<\/a> finished 13th, 2:59 behind winner Filippo Ganna<\/a> (Netcompany-Ineos), and losing time to GC rivals Thymen Arensman (Netcompany-Ineos), Derek Gee-West (Lidl-Trek) and Ben O’Connor (Jayco AlUla).<\/p>\n

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Thomas added: “Even on the mountains \u2013 don’t get me wrong, he smashed everyone he won two stages \u2013 but the standards he’s set, along with Pog [Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a>]… if he was at his best, the gap to [GC rival Felix] Gall would be bigger. It just feels like that gap between Jonas and the rest is a lot closer [than you’d expect] on those mountain stages and today. He’s not pinging.<\/p>\n

“But, saying that,” said the Welsh former Tour de France<\/a> winner, “he’s still leading out of the GC guys, still in a really strong position. Part of me thinks he’s not been 100%.”<\/p>\n

Conversely, the stage was a superb one for Thomas’s team, who fielded both the stage winner and the runner-up in Ganna and Arensman \u2013 the latter boosting his hopes for the GC, now lying in third place.<\/p>\n

“Obviously Pippo absolutely smashed it, almost two minutes to second place who was Thymen. Which was good for us as he gained time on all the GC boys,” Thomas said.<\/p>\n

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Assessing the rides of GC players, he praised the fifth-place ride Gee-West, and also the battling performance by maglia rosa Alfonso Eul\u00e1lio<\/a> (Bahrain Victorious).<\/p>\n

“Just off the top of my head I think Derek Gee, he did a good ride,” Thomas said. “If you’re thinking expectations, above or below, I think he was solid.<\/p>\n

“Fair play to Eul\u00e1lio,” he added. “They [Bahrain Victorious] should keep it for three days or so now really.”<\/p>\n

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Missing out on claiming the jersey on the stage would have bothered Vingegaard less than his below-par performance and time lost to other GC players, judged Thomas: “I think he’ll be like, ah it’s fine, Bahrain can control for another three days.”<\/p>\n

While Thomas drove a Netcompany-Ineos team car behind Magnus Sheffield during the stage, Thomas had a very good idea of what the US rider was going through, he said, because he’d suffered through a recon ride with the team’s big guns himself that morning.<\/p>\n

Riding with Ganna, Arensman and others, who were all in aero finery, Thomas was on a road bike<\/a>. He’d been promised a steady ride, he said, but it didn’t quite turn out that way.<\/p>\n

“Mate, it was the longest 42km of my life,” he told Watts Occurring co-host Luke Rowe. “I was swinging the whole way round. Just riding to the start I felt like an imposter, like a big fan boy you know?”<\/p>\n

Next time, perhaps Thomas will take the advice of fellow Netcompany-Ineos staffer Elia Viviani, who warned him that it would be hard going.<\/p>\n

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