This Sunday, July 6, the 182 runners of Tour de France 2025 were embarked on the longest stage of this 112nd edition between Lauwin-Planque and Boulogne-sur-Mer, with 2,550 meters of elevation on the program and a beautiful chain of three bumps in an explosive and eventful final. At the end of this day, it is the ultra favorite of this stage, the Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who won ahead of the world champion Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and the Danish Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease A Bike). The latter spoke to the microphone of Cyclism’Actu To talk about the main objective of the team on this second stage.
Video – Jonas Vingegaard at the microphone of Cyclism'Actu
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“I haven't had a burn-out yet …”
After the stage, the double winner of the Large loop (2022 and 2023) confided in our microphone in Cyclism’Actu and said: “There are a lot of training courses and internships at altitude in the year, so it's also difficult for my family life. I still drive, so at least I have not yet had burn-out. Of course, our goal is to win the general classification, but we also have other goals, like winning stages. So far, we wanted to target the stage with Wout, but he did not feel very well. did not expect me to finish third on a stage like this, so yes, I am obviously very happy with my legs.
We wanted to do everything to make Wout Van Aert win today. I think he didn't have legs, so we tried to win with me and even with Matteo Jorgenson. Finally, it went well. We would have liked to win the stage with Wout today. Third is the maximum that we can do today. To be honest, it's very intense here when you start stages like this. Personally, I preferred the last two editions, where it is hard from the start. It's much more stressful, but it's part of the Tour de France “concludes Jonas Vingegaard After this 2nd stage.
