{"id":1039152,"date":"2026-06-20T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1039152\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:35:17","slug":"sometimes-i-just-need-to-be-a-little-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1039152\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I just need to be a little patient"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stage 3 was a chance for the breakaway. But in the peloton, no-one had the interest of seeing van der Poel up front. “They reacted pretty aggressively when I went. So I decided pretty quickly to save my energy and go for the sprint,” van der Poel shared with AD<\/a>.In a modest sprinter field, he would stand a chance. But the breakaway was victorious once again, with Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez taking the win<\/a>. “It\u2019s a shame we fell just short. In the end, we still came close. I\u2019d already given up hope a bit with 20 kilometers to go”. Behind, van der Poel was third from the peloton; fifth in the stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was also less hot. That made me feel much better right away. I\u2019m satisfied. On the climbs at the start of the stage, I was able to keep up without any problems”.<\/p>\n

Stage 5 with the high mountains will obviously be out of van der Poel’s range. This Saturday’s time trial not so much, where he can realistically aim for a strong result in a field that also does not feature many specialists. “The plan is to go all out again on Saturday. We\u2019ll see how I feel”.<\/p>\n

But ultimately, van der Poel will leave the Tour de Suisse<\/a> without any notable result, heading into the Tour de France. \u201cIt didn\u2019t go as well as I\u2019d hoped. We\u2019ve also just come off a tough training camp, where we worked hard with the team. Everything went well there, but maybe I was feeling the effects of that. Sometimes I just need to be a little patient,” he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 3 was a chance for the breakaway. But in the peloton, no-one had the interest of seeing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1039153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4104],"tags":[223291,4230,10102,79,101489,16,15],"class_list":["post-1039152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-alpecin-premier-tech","tag-cycling","tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-suisse","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116783410357137048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}