{"id":296674,"date":"2025-07-27T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296674\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:51:12","slug":"something-i-can-be-proud-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296674\/","title":{"rendered":"Something I can be proud of"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike, the Tour de France<\/a> ended on a high note on Sunday. At the last possible moment, the Dutch team managed to shake off the yellow jersey wearer Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates-XRG), although it was Wout van Aert<\/a> who did it on Montmartre. Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> finished safely and spoke to TV2<\/a> after the race.<\/b><\/p>\n

Vingegaard took second place on the final podium, something that never gets old. \u201cIt’s always special to come to Paris. It’s the end of the world’s biggest race, and there are a lot of people. Normally, the weather is good, but today it was terrible,\u201d said the Dane. \u201cSomehow it’s just extraordinary to be here and to be on the podium.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Visma | Lease a Bike team leader has now competed in the Tour five times and has finished on the podium every time. \u201cLooking back on my career and thinking about what I’ve achieved, I think it’s something to be proud of: that I’ve completed the Tour de France five times and finished on the podium five times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more below the photo!<\/p>\n

\"'vingegaard-pogacar\"\/Vingegaard receives kind words from Pogacar<\/p>\n

But the two-time winner’s thirst for victory isn’t over yet, as he said earlier. \u201cObviously, I would have loved to win. I’m not hiding that, but it’s still something I can take pride in. But I would have loved to win,\u201d said Vingegaard, who also received some lovely words from rival Pogacar before the final stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the start, I spoke with Jonas about how much has changed in recent years,\u201d said the Slovenian. \u201cWe’ve been racing against each other in the Tour for five years now and pushing each other to a higher level. We have to push our limits to beat each other, so I have to give him credit for that. He fought really hard, and I want to congratulate him on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vingegaard, who will start the Vuelta in less than a month<\/a>, can take that compliment and use it to motivate himself. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Visma | Lease a Bike, the Tour de France ended on a high note on Sunday. At…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-296674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114926943147022058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296674","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=296674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}