{"id":206129,"date":"2025-06-22T22:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206129\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T22:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:06:16","slug":"jonas-is-good-but-hes-not-going-to-improve-by-5-or-10-before-the-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206129\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJonas is good, but he\u2019s not going to improve by 5 or 10% before the Tour&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Kamp, not only is Pogacar the strongest rider heading into the Tour this year, but the Slovenian world champion can also lean on the strongest team in the entire peloton as his support at <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/uae-team-emirates-xrg\" title=\"UAE Team Emirates - XRG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UAE Team Emirates &#8211; XRG<\/a>. \u201cUAE have a strong team. Visma are strong too \u2014 but Tadej is the best,&#8221; Kamp analyses. &#8220;Last year, we saw him make up two minutes on Matteo Jorgenson by himself on one of the final stages. What can you do against a guy like that? He is just a machine.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/groupama-fdj\" title=\"Groupama - FDJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Groupama &#8211; FDJ<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/stefan-kung\" title=\"Stefan K\u00fcng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stefan K\u00fcng<\/a> was also asked to give his thoughts on the dual, with the Swiss time trial specialist suggesting only a sense of complacency could threaten Pogacar&#8217;s Maillot Jaune dominance. \u201cArriving at the Tour overconfident may not be a great idea, but Pogacar is Pogacar,&#8221; K\u00fcng explains. &#8220;He\u2019s been incredibly hard to beat over the past year, so it\u2019ll be tough for Jonas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Kamp, not only is Pogacar the strongest rider heading into the Tour this year, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-206129","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\/114729293176332007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206129","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=206129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}