{"id":280978,"date":"2025-07-21T21:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280978\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:53:11","slug":"vingegaard-vows-to-race-for-the-win-in-the-final-week-of-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280978\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard vows to race for the win in the final week of the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I can still win the Tour,” the 2022-2023 champion said, noting that “a lot can still happen.”<\/p>\n

\"Dane<\/p>\n

Cor Vos<\/p>\n

Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard claims he is down but not out, not entirely at least, as this year’s race heads into its final week.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Dane is a little over four minutes behind Tadej Poga\u010dar as of the second rest day, but he made it clear in a Visma-Lease a Bike press conference on Monday in Montpellier that he has not given up hope.<\/p>\n

“I do still think that I can win it,” Vingegaard said. “It looks very hard, now it’s a big gap, but I still think I can do it.”<\/p>\n

Theoretically, that’s probably true. The stages to come are hard enough that even a gap of 4:13 might not be completely safe, with summit finishes on Mont Ventoux on stage 16, the Col de la Loze on stage 18, and a third hors categorie climb to La Plagne on stage 19 all likely to be major battlegrounds for the GC riders. It is certainly within the realm of possibility that a rider could lose four minutes on those high-altitude challenges, to say nothing of crashes or illness.<\/p>\n

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