{"id":699967,"date":"2026-07-19T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699967\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:08:08","slug":"tour-de-france-2026-stage-15-live-can-anyone-stop-tadej-pogacar-taking-back-to-back-mountain-wins-at-plateau-de-solaison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699967\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2026 Stage 15 LIVE \u2013 Can anyone stop Tadej Pogacar taking back-to-back mountain wins at Plateau de Solaison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>170KM TO GO: GREEN JERSEY OPPORTUNITIES RUNNING OUT<\/p>\n<p>There are only two more stages that could \u2013 but won\u2019t necessarily \u2013 end in a sprint: Stage 17 to Voiron and Stage 21 to Paris. There won\u2019t be any points up for grabs in Tuesday\u2019s TT, then the Voiron stage on Wednesday kicks off with four lower-category climbs, while the intermediate sprint doesn\u2019t come till 147.5km into the stage \u2013 so that won\u2019t be easy for the sprinters to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>The intermediate sprint on Stage 18 to Orcieres-Merlette comes at 129km, then the sprint to Alpe d\u2019Huez in Stage 19 is after 89km, then on Stage 20 it\u2019s at 66km after the Col du Glandon and Croix de Fer \u2013 so no guarantee that any of the fastmen can pick anything up.<\/p>\n<p>A better stomping ground comes on the last day of the race, with the sprint coming on the Champs-Elysees after 71km. Vut then we have those three ascents of the Butte de Montmartre, which could nullify any chances of a sprint on the Champs-Elysees for the stage win.<\/p>\n<p>In short: this sprint coming up right now could be key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"170KM TO GO: GREEN JERSEY OPPORTUNITIES RUNNING OUT There are only two more stages that could \u2013 but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699967","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\/699967","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=699967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}