{"id":263210,"date":"2025-07-14T03:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263210\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T03:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:29:10","slug":"its-very-disappointing-for-the-whole-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263210\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s very disappointing for the whole race"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing to celebrate about abandon of a rider who had crashed two days earlier, but the stocks of Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> at the Tour de France<\/a> have massively improved with Tadej Pogacar’s right-hand man Joao Almeida no longer in the race. Suddenly, Visma | Lease a Bike have a whole load of new tactical options to play with.Almeida fell in the finale of stage 7 along some other GC men like Santiago Buitrago and was subsequently diagnosed with a broken rib. Still, the 26-year-old fought through the following stage to ultimately abandon on Sunday. “What mattered was that he crashed,” Vingegaard summed briefly for Ekstra Bladet<\/a> his thoughts about the abandon of UAE’s key domestique Almeida.<\/p>\n

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To the Dane, it didn’t come as a surprise that the Portuguese was no longer able to continue. He, more than anyone, understands well that broken ribs are not something you can ignore: “So even if he had continued, it would have been to do something. Because when you’re in such a bad situation, it’s more about getting through than whether you can do anything.”<\/p>\n

The Visma leader feels like the Tour might not be the same without Almeida: “Of course, it’s very disappointing. Both for them, but also for the cycling race. But what is most unfortunate is that he crashes,” he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s nothing to celebrate about abandon of a rider who had crashed two days earlier, but the stocks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-263210","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\/114849471746054135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263210","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=263210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}