{"id":312616,"date":"2025-08-02T18:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312616\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T18:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:54:11","slug":"tadej-pogacar-was-fuming-he-chased-down-visma-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312616\/","title":{"rendered":"“Tadej Pogacar was fuming… he chased down Visma riders\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI think it was a strange thing to do. I do understand that the other stars also want their chance, but they could have joined the breakaway instead \u2014 and in fact, they were attacking up the road themselves,\u201d Andresen recalls to Eurosport’s Radio Tour<\/a>, with his confusion matched by frustration from Pogacar.<\/p>\n

When the Slovenian had crashed a few days earlier, Vingegaard had classily helped slow the GC group to wait for Pogacar, ensuring the race wouldn’t be decided by such an incident. Looking to try and repay the favour, Pogacar was met by opposition in his attempts to slow the pace by Vingegaard’s own teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cTadej was trying to slow things down because there had been a crash. He was fuming, and at first, he only chased down Visma riders,\u201d recalls Andresen, with the Dane surprised at the reaction of Visma riders, noting how his Picnic PostNL team were all in to support Oscar Onley<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s odd. Before every stage, we\u2019re given our roles. On that day, five of us were assigned to support Oscar, so if there\u2019s a crash, we\u2019re there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time he stops to take a leak, three of us pull over with him. These are the sorts of things you agree on beforehand. So I don\u2019t know how their roles are divided, but I do find it strange \u2014 especially when you have a genuine shot at winning the Tour de France,\u201d he adds in conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think it was a strange thing to do. I do understand that the other stars also want…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-312616","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\/114960693018429273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312616","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=312616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}