Jonas Vingegaard has not experienced loss at the Tour de France before. He has not won every time he has been at the race - he finished second in 2021 - but that was unexpected, that was the Visma-Lease a Bike announcing himself. He won in 2022, and in 2023, but now he came up short. As Tadej Pogačar celebrated, he looked downcast.
And who could blame the Dane? He had his season's one main goal all but kicked out from underneath him in the most violent way thanks to a crash – but he had to face it down anyway – it always going to hurt.
