When Jonas Vingegaard took the first yellow jersey of the 2026 Tour de France yesterday, he swore he would cherish every moment in it. But on stage two's uphill finish to Montjuic, as Tadej Pogačar and Isaac Del Toro unleashed a double-fronted charge to the line, prising open a small gap to the maillot jaune as they did so, it was hard to wonder if this was it. Was the Dane's tenure in cycling's most revered garment already at an end?
But Vingegaard held the gap to less than a second and, despite the UAE Team Emirates-XRG pair taking a one-two that seemed to delight Pogačar as much as it did his young teammate, the jersey remained the property of Visma-Lease a Bike for another day. With bonus seconds factored in though, Vingegaard's 12 second lead to Pogačar was cut to six.
