{"id":257698,"date":"2025-07-12T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257698\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:45:10","slug":"tour-de-france-2025-pogacar-beats-vingegaard-to-stage-seven-win-and-regains-yellow-jersey-tour-de-france-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257698\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2025: Pogacar beats Vingegaard to stage seven win and regains yellow jersey | Tour de France 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Tour de France<\/a> wherever Tadej Pogacar goes Jonas Vingegaard follows. They were locked together at the top of the M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne, in the C\u00f4tes-d\u2019Armor, with the \u00addefending champion winning stage seven of the 2025 Tour just ahead of the Dane and regaining the yellow jersey.<\/p>\n

Pogacar is usually the \u00adquickest of the pair in uphill sprints, but \u00adVingegaard has always been on his shoulder, with the world champion, Remco Evenepoel, still close behind.<\/p>\n

Pogacar leads after Mathieu van der Poel faded on the steep climb to the finish, with Evenepoel 54 seconds behind, and the French breakthrough rider, Kevin Vauquelin, holding on to third place in the general classification.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old from Normandy has quickly captured the host nation\u2019s affections. In the past that has often been a poisoned chalice, but \u00adVauquelin has taken it in his stride. Vingegaard is fourth overall, more than a minute behind.<\/p>\n

Even Pogacar has welcomed younger rivals, such as Vauquelin and Britain\u2019s Oscar Onley, who was third on M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne and lies seventh and showing consistent form in his second Tour. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of professionalism already at a young age,\u201d he said. \u201cTo see young guys coming through is good, \u00adespecially Kevin in the last two days.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has great support and Oscar Onley showed already how bright he is, with a punchy kick. He\u2019s riding super well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pogacar did not have a flawless afternoon, with his key climbing support, Jo\u00e3o Almeida, crashing at speed less than 6km from the finish as the peloton descended towards the second and final climb of the M\u00fbr.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s beautiful to be in yellow and win the stage,\u201d Pogacar said, who dedicated his win to his Portuguese teammate. \u201cIt was a luxury to have Jo\u00e3o so close on GC. I hope it\u2019s nothing broken and he can continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The success of Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin has captured the host nation\u2019s affections at the start of this year\u2019s Tour de France. Photograph: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

He has others he can lean on, such as the tall, powerful Nils Politt, who Pogacar calls \u201cGiraffe\u201d, but he will need Almeida when the race reaches the first long climbs next Monday on the stage to Puy de Sancy.<\/p>\n

On another hot afternoon it took 70km for a break to establish itself after a volatile opening to the stage. Geraint Thomas was joined in the mid-stage break by EF Education-EasyPost\u2019s Alex Baudin, teammate to Thursday\u2019s winner, Ben Healy, as the American team sought another stage victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thomas\u2019s escape ended 17km from the finish when he was caught on the first ascent of the M\u00fbr. But after a \u00addisappointing start from Ineos \u00adGrenadiers, the Welshman had at least got \u201cstuck in\u201d, to use his own\u00a0phrase.<\/p>\n

On the fast approach to the finishing circuit, centred on the dead straight two kilometre ramp of the M\u00fbr, Pogacar\u2019s UAE Emirates and Vingegaard\u2019s Visma Lease-a-bike yet again jostled for supremacy. As the mercury rises, so is the tension between the two squads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last two days, it was some strange racing from Visma,\u201d Pogacar said. \u201cLet\u2019s see their approach in the next days. The weekend will be easier and then stage 10 will be a proper hard day of suffering with hot temperatures and lots of climbs all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stage eight is definitely one for the sprinters, with only a gentle fourth category climb on the 171km route from Saint-Meen-Le-Grand to Laval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this Tour de France wherever Tadej Pogacar goes Jonas Vingegaard follows. They were locked together at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-257698","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\/114837738418443481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257698","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=257698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}