{"id":174245,"date":"2025-06-11T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174245\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:04:14","slug":"criterium-du-dauphine-ivan-romeo-wins-stage-three-to-claim-yellow-leaders-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174245\/","title":{"rendered":"Criterium du Dauphine: Ivan Romeo wins stage three to claim yellow leader&#8217;s jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe it,&#8221; said Romeo. &#8220;It was one of the toughest days of my life so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The breakaway, it was so hard to get into it, and I wasn&#8217;t feeling really good, so I waited to the last moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know in this kind of flat finish in a small break, I have good instinct, and that if they give me some seconds I can make it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had this stage on my mind for a month. We&#8217;ve been doing altitude [training] at Sierra Nevada, working super hard with all the team, and they gave me this chance at the beginning of the week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Romeo was the under-23 time trial champion at last year&#8217;s World Championships and Tuesday&#8217;s success means he has a 17-second lead in the Dauphine&#8217;s general classification standings heading into the time trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reigning Tour de France and Giro d&#8217;Italia champion Tadej Pogacar is just over a minute back in ninth and will aim to close the gap as the eight-stage race heads into the mountains on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe it,&#8221; said Romeo. &#8220;It was one of the toughest days of my life so far.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-174245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114661809535164672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174245","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=174245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}