Jonas Vingegaard shuns media and heads straight into Visma bus as DS looks for positives after Tour de France hammering: "He is still the best of the rest"

Jonas Vingegaard was not in the mood to talk to the media after being beaten by more than two minutes at the hands of Tadej Pogacar on the final climb to the line at Hautacam on stage 12 of the 2025 Tour de France.

The Danish leader of Team Visma | Lease a Bike raced past the assembled media, hoping to get his reaction, and headed straight for the Visma team bus, looking to get off the mountain as soon as possible after his defeat. Vingegaard's sports director Grischa Niermann did quickly address the media though, stressing that whilst it was no doubt a disappointing day for the whole team, it wasn't the end of the world.

“I don’t know if it was a bad day for Jonas – it certainly wasn’t his best,” Niermann explaining, looking to even slightly calm the doom and gloom surrounding the team after a chastening experience on Hautacam. “But let’s not forget, he’s still the best of the rest. I want to take my hat off to Tadej Pogačar. He proved stronger than anyone today.”

Vingegaard is indeed still 2nd overall, but now 3:31 down on the Maillot Jaune wearing Pogacar. If just being best of the rest is the new target meanwhile, Vingegaard leads Remco Evenepoel by 1:14, with Florian Lipowitz in 4th, 2:03 down on the Visma leader.