{"id":199119,"date":"2025-07-15T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=199119"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:26:22","slug":"can-the-new-vingegaard-beat-the-same-old-pogacar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/07\/15\/can-the-new-vingegaard-beat-the-same-old-pogacar\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the \u2018New Vingegaard\u2019 Beat the Same Old Poga\u010dar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Yates won Monday\u2019s stage 10 of the Tour de France, the first victory of his Visma\u2013Lease a Bike team in this year\u2019s race, as Ben Healy (EF Education\u2013EasyPost) became only the fourth Irishman in the history of the race to wear the race leader\u2019s yellow jersey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Irish delight<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the first real mountain stage of the Tour, with eight categorised climbs and more than 4,500 m of altitude gained, Yates was part of a breakaway initiated by Healy with 45.2 km to ride in the 165.3 km stage from\u00a0<\/strong>Ennezat to Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy. This year\u2019s Giro d\u2019Italia winner took off on the final climb 2.4 km from the finish and fended off challenges by Ben O\u2019Connor (Jayco AlUla) and Thymen Arensman (INEOS Grenadiers) to win his third-ever Tour stage and the 11th Grand Tour stage of his career.<\/p>\n

Healy finished third, 31 seconds adrift but 4:30 in front of Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG), the former race leader, and goes into Tuesday\u2019s rest day with a lead of 29 seconds over the Slovenian, with Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) in third, at 1:29, and Yates\u2019s teammate Jonas Vingegaard sitting in fourth, 1:46 behind. On Monday, the traditional rest day in the Tour, France celebrated Bastille Day, so the country\u2019s greatest sporting event could not be put on hold.<\/p>\n

The new race leader, who also has a stage win in this Tour, was clearly delighted. \u201cIt’s a fairytale,\u201d Healy said. \u201cIf you told me this before the Tour, I wouldn’t have believed you. To wear the yellow jersey is incredible, and beyond belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Healy won\u2019t be part of the fight for the overall GC victory. Barring injury or illness, that will be between Poga\u010dar and Vingegaard as it has been in every Tour of this decade. And this year, after 10 stages \u2013 that makes half of the race \u2013 it seems to be more of the same, despite Evenepoel\u2019s best efforts to turn the contest into a m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois.<\/p>\n

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