{"id":680992,"date":"2026-07-08T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680992\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:08:10","slug":"jonas-vingegaard-avoids-tour-de-france-disaster-scrambles-to-finish-on-teammates-bike-after-late-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680992\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard avoids Tour de France disaster, scrambles to finish on teammate’s bike after late crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being caught up in a late crash, Jonas Vingegaard finished stage 5 of the Tour de France<\/a> on teammate Victor Campenaerts’ bike, avoiding total disaster as his Visma-Lease a Bike chased hard to ensure he finished on the same time as Tadej Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n

Visma’s lead DS Marc Reef explained the hectic finale at the team bus, noting how what was a moment of mass stress ended up with the result they wanted.<\/p>\n

“We heard that Jonas was also in the crash, or somewhere involved. Then he got immediately the bike from Victor [Campenaerts], the boys were with him pulling hard for him, and in the end I think everybody what we see now is on the same time at the finish,” said Reef at the team bus to small group of reporters, including Cyclingnews.<\/p>\n

“We knew that it was a tight corner, also with the sidewalk on the right side, or a small higher line, we knew that corner was coming. The moment how we approached the final was just good, we were together, but in the hectic crash, I think in the end, Jonas got the bike from Victor, we rode hard to the line, and it finished all on the same time.”<\/p>\n

The first sprint finish of the Tour is always crazy, but this crash occurred at the worst possible moment, just outside the 5km safe zone that all of the GC riders were hoping to arrive at in one piece. Several Soudal-QuickStep and Caja Rural riders were involved.<\/p>\n

In the end, Vingegaard finished the day in 53rd, on the same 14-second gap as Poga\u010dar and all of the protagonists to stage winner Olav Kooij<\/a>, with the first big mountain stage arriving on Thursday to Gavarnie-D\u00e8dre.<\/p>\n

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Despite finishing 32 positions down on Poga\u010dar, Visma’s successful late chase allowed them to close up to the back of the main peloton, and with riders in between, the two multiple-time former winners were given the same time. Campenaerts, with whom he swapped bikes, finished 4:50 down, having had to wait for the team car to give him a new machine.<\/p>\n

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“There were riders in between everywhere, so you didn’t have gaps of three seconds,” explained Reef to Sporza at the finish. “There were about ten seconds between Pogacar and Jonas, but with riders in between. Then everyone is given the same time.”<\/p>\n

With the Col d’Aspin and iconic Col du Tourmalet lining the route of Thursday’s important GC stage, Vingegaard will be delighted to have avoided anything serious in the way of injury, with pictures of him at the finish barely showing a scratch from the stressful incident.<\/p>\n

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