{"id":701422,"date":"2026-07-20T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701422\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:59:10","slug":"if-the-opportunity-to-put-isaac-on-the-podium-presents-itself-then-why-not-mauro-gianetti-plots-uaes-multi-rider-strategy-while-guarding-pogacars-yellow-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701422\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf the opportunity to put Isaac on the podium presents itself, then why not?\u201d: Mauro Gianetti plots UAE’s multi-rider strategy while guarding Pogacar’s yellow jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSpeaking after the stage, Gianetti was full of praise for both his riders while also acknowledging Evenepoel’s impressive victory. \u201cI haven’t spoken with the riders yet, but I think Remco more than deserved this stage,\u201d Gianetti said<\/a>. \u201cHe did his job, produced a great sprint and fully deserved the victory.\u201dThe Swiss manager explained that Pogacar’s role changed once it became clear Vingegaard was no longer in contention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTadej rode strongly throughout the entire climb. He set a big tempo and put Isaac in a position to move up in the general classification because Jonas Vingegaard’s crash completely changed both the standings and the way the race unfolded.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt became a completely different race. We were expecting an attack from Vingegaard on the final climb after his team had controlled the race, but unfortunately his crash changed everything. I saw that they changed their plan during the climb.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jonas<\/p>\n

Jonas Vingegaard was forced to abandon the Tour de France after breaking his collarbone<\/p>\n

UAE open to Del Toro podium bid<\/p>\n

According to Gianetti, Vingegaard’s abandonment forces every team to rethink its tactics for the final week. Had the Dane still been in the race, Pogacar would have been fully focused on matching any attacks instead of supporting Del Toro.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I said, if Vingegaard had attacked, Tadej would have had to follow him and wouldn’t have been able to help Isaac.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite becoming the overwhelming favorite for overall victory, Gianetti admitted that the Tour is not the same after losing one of its biggest protagonists and arguably Pogacar’s main challenger.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow things have changed. The Tour de France without Vingegaard is not the same Tour de France. For us, he’s a friend whom we need, and we’ll miss him. I think the entire peloton and all the fans will miss him because he’s an incredible warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Del Toro now firmly in podium contention, UAE are willing to support his ambitions, but only if it does not compromise Pogacar’s quest for a fifth Tour title.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday he was thinking about winning the stage, so everything changed a little and it opens other opportunities, whether for Isaac or for others, to get onto the podium. If the opportunity to put Isaac on the podium presents itself, then why not? But we won’t take any risks that could endanger Tadej’s yellow jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gianetti also talked about the anti-doping test that both Pogacar and Vingegaard had to endure in the middle of the night. The UAE boss insisted neither he nor his rider had any issue with the procedure.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe woke up and was a little surprised, but he did it. He’s used to it. Those are the rules. That’s the way it is, and it’s a good thing that there are controls,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speaking after the stage, Gianetti was full of praise for both his riders while also acknowledging Evenepoel’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,109610,9046,109468,101,8782,6549,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-isaac-del-toro","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-mauro-gianetti","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tour-de-france","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701422","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=701422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}