{"id":260086,"date":"2025-07-12T22:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260086\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T22:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:49:10","slug":"they-think-vingegaard-has-greater-endurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260086\/","title":{"rendered":"They think Vingegaard has greater endurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spaniard believes the Dutch squad is banking on the idea that if the race is tough enough, Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> will reach the latter stages of the Tour in better condition than Tadej Pogacar<\/a>.Reflecting on the stage, Contador explained that UAE were initially very selective about who they allowed into the breakaway \u2014 particularly not letting Wout van Aert<\/a> go \u2014 until Mathieu van der Poel<\/a> managed to sneak in, something Visma clearly weren\u2019t happy about: \u201cOnce Van der Poel got into the break, UAE\u2019s attitude completely changed \u2014 they allowed it. But Visma didn\u2019t like the look of that situation at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Dutch team made their displeasure clear: \u201cJorgenson, who’s well-placed in the general classification, took it upon himself to ramp things up again, which prompted an immediate response from Pogacar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visma were determined to keep the race alive. First, Jorgenson surged ahead after noticing the pace had dropped and the break was gaining time. Then they sent forward Tiesj Benoot, followed by Simon Yates. Realising they couldn’t reel in the escapees \u2014 who were just 15 seconds up the road at the time \u2014 Visma eventually gave Yates the green light to bridge across, hoping to keep their chances of a stage win alive. That, according to Contador, was effectively their Plan B.<\/p>\n

In Contador\u2019s view, Visma succeeded in their goal of draining UAE\u2019s energy reserves: \u201cThey did a brilliant job, especially on the final climb, creating a massive amount of fatigue. It was an absolutely brutal stage \u2014 the kind where riders reach the finish and say, \u2018Blimey, what a day.\u2019 And all this without any proper high mountain passes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concluded by assessing the long-term implications of Visma\u2019s approach, and looked ahead to Stage 7: \u201cVisma are sticking to their strategy of trying to wear UAE down as much as possible \u2014 although they\u2019re using up a lot of energy themselves in the process. Whether that pays off by the end of the Tour remains to be seen. But they believe it will \u2014 they think Vingegaard has greater endurance. And funnily enough, they nearly ended up keeping yellow by accident. It\u2019s very likely that Pogacar will be back in yellow today on the M\u00fbr de Bretagne.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spaniard believes the Dutch squad is banking on the idea that if the race is tough enough,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-260086","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\/114842708476017017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260086","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=260086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}