{"id":236063,"date":"2025-07-04T00:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236063\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:26:11","slug":"interview-simon-yates-i-dont-think-im-going-to-lose-time-on-purpose-but-like-you-said-im-not-the-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236063\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW Simon Yates | “I don’t think I’m going to lose time on purpose, but like you said I’m not the priority”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Yates<\/a> has achieved the climax of his career by winning the Giro d’Italia last May, and this afternoon he was at Team Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike’s team presentation at the Tour de France. The Briton comes in with a very distinct goal however, as he tells CyclingUpToDate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Briton took a surprise and impressive victory at the Giro, closing a chapter of many years in what is the race that means the most to him. With the pressure off his shoulders, Yates shares how there was a very professional approach to his post-Giro. “Yeah I mean, there wasn’t much time to relax because I went on a training camp with the team. Just a few days to celebrate let’s say, and already back to work,” he said in words to us in Lille.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yates spent several weeks at altitude training with his teammates, and the feedback from the training camp is quite good for the whole of Team Visma | Lease a Bike: “Everyone was looking good, everyone’s focused and motivated, and let’s see what happens in the race”.<\/p>\n

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His role will be that of supporting Jonas Vingegaard in this Tour, whilst Matteo Jorgenson – like in 2024 – is also expected to be towards the front throughout the whole race, being a second GC card. The team also has Sepp Kuss however, winner of the 2023 Vuelta, and Yates himself who can be used as cards depending on the circumstances – mostly to try and put pressure on UAE.<\/p>\n

Yates does not have the weight of having to perform in the overall classification here, but he does not exclude it either. “You never know what happens. I don’t think I’m going to lose time on purpose, but like you said I’m not the priority here. If I lose some time or whatever then it’s fine”.<\/p>\n

However Yates and Visma took a huge win at the Giro, and have put the ball on UAE’s court. “There’s always pressure at the Tour de France but I think we’re in a very nice situation. The team has come off a big high at the Giro and yeah hopefully we can continue with that atmosphere”.<\/p>\n

However despite being one of the most prominent climbers of 2025, there isn’t a specific stage that he is looking towards in this race. “Looking forward to is a strong word. It’s going to be a hard race, there’s not really one that stands out to be honest,” he concluded.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Yates has achieved the climax of his career by winning the Giro d’Italia last May, and this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-236063","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\/114792129062511391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236063","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=236063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}