{"id":283567,"date":"2025-07-22T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283567\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:58:10","slug":"vingegaard-fuming-after-collision-with-photographer-on-ventoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283567\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard Fuming after Collision with Photographer on Ventoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    &#8220;], &#8220;filter&#8221;: { &#8220;nextExceptions&#8221;: &#8220;img, blockquote, div&#8221;, &#8220;nextContainsExceptions&#8221;: &#8220;img, blockquote, a.btn, a.o-button&#8221;} }&#8221;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/jonas-vingegaard\" data-afl-p=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> had barely finished burying himself on the <a href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france\/tour-de-france-stage-16-results-reactions-report\" data-afl-p=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mont Ventoux summit finish<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/tour-de-france\" data-afl-p=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France<\/a> on Tuesday when he was brought down in a collision with a race photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Visma-Lease a Bike\u2019s leader was fuming after the bizarre incident behind the finish line on the notorious \u201cbald mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he was not visibly hurt, he could be heard complaining to staffers that he banged his left shoulder in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome photographer just ran straight out in front of me straight after the finish line,\u201d Vingegaard told reporters. \u201cI don\u2019t know what he was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vingegaard zoomed into the cluttered finish area behind the line after he sprinted for seconds with Tadej Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n<p>The cramped space in front of Ventoux\u2019s iconic radio mast was a mess of team staff, broadcasters, and race technicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went down,\u201d Vingegaard said. \u201cI think people in the finish area should use their eyes a bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Big time Jonas today<\/p>\n<p>Quel spectacle de Jonas aujourd\u2019hui <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDF2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-afl-p=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TDF2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eHCnnlBGWy\" data-afl-p=\"0\">pic.twitter.com\/eHCnnlBGWy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tour de France\u2122 (@LeTour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeTour\/status\/1947673633997857148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-afl-p=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018I didn\u2019t gain any time today but I take a lot of motivation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tough way to end the day for Vingegaard, who saw his attacking blitz fail to crack Poga\u010dar on the infernal 16km summit finish of the Tour\u2019s 16th stage.<\/p>\n<p>Vingegaard lost two seconds to Poga\u010dar at the line and is now 4:15 back.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, he\u2019s committed to keep attacking through the Alps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was feeling very good today. I am happy with the feeling today and happy with the attacks I tried to do,\u201d Vingegaard said. \u201cOf course I didn\u2019t gain any time today but I take a lot of motivation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoga\u010dar followed me every time I attacked, and I followed him when he attacked,\u201d Vingegaard said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I could see any weaknesses today but at least it gives me some motivation how good I felt today. As I said earlier, I will keep trying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visma-Lease a Bike will put Vingegaard through a full medical checkup Tuesday night ahead of what will be a huge mountain brawl on Thursday to the Col de la Loze.<\/p>\n<p>A more straightforward 17th stage Wednesday will afford his legs \u2013 and his shoulder \u2013 some welcome recovery.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;], &#8220;filter&#8221;: { &#8220;nextExceptions&#8221;: &#8220;img, blockquote, div&#8221;, &#8220;nextContainsExceptions&#8221;: &#8220;img, blockquote, a.btn, a.o-button&#8221;} }&#8221;&gt; Jonas Vingegaard had barely finished&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,31323,79,16152,20680,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-283567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-jonas-vingegaard","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tadej-pogacar","12":"tag-tour-de-france","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114899131073564830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283567","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=283567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}