"It was one of the hardest stages of my life": Jonas Vingegaard continues to struggle in Tour de France

Jonas Vingegaard used stage 14 of the Tour de France to test Tadej Pogacar and attack him for the first time in the mountains, but wasn't able to drop his rival. he gives feedback from the final day of racing in the Pyrenees where he was third at the finish line.

"Like yesterday, I have to be happy with how my legs worked today, I think it was one of the hardest stages I've done, it was a very hard day for everyone, this performance made me happy," Vingegaard said in a post-race interview.

Team Visma | Lease a Bike had Sepp Kuss and Simon Yates in the breakaway and could potentially ride a tactical race, but with the yellow jersey showing no fragility, that wouldn't be effective. The Dane followed the UAE train all day long and then when it became clear that Pogacar wouldn't attack, the Dane did it himself with 4 kilometers to go.

"We had Kuss and Yates in the breakaway looking for the stage win, they couldn't follow Arensman at the end, but they did a good job, congratulations to him." Vingegaard was joined by Matteo Jorgenson and Victor Campenaerts in the peloton until the final climb.

"I expected to attack today on the last climb, I thought that in the last stage we were going to fight and in the end I tried. It was a hard day, 5 hours sitting on the bike". At the end of the day the gap back to Pogacar is of 4:13 minutes. It is unlikely that unless there is a big crack in the Slovenian's armour it won't be closed. But with the first two weeks of racing being brutal and the final week presenting brutal mountain stages, everything can change and Vingegaard is likely to keep trying.