{"id":196246,"date":"2022-07-25T00:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T19:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=196246"},"modified":"2022-07-25T00:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T19:20:35","slug":"jonas-vingegaard-wins-tour-de-france-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/jonas-vingegaard-wins-tour-de-france-for-1st-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard wins Tour de France for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PARIS, jul 24 (AP) \u2014 Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark won his first Tour de France title on Sunday after coming out on top in a thrilling three-week duel with defending champion Tadej Pogacar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 25-year-old Vingegaard became the first Danish rider to win cycling\u2019s biggest race since Bjarne Riis in 1996.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vingegaard, who was runner-up to Pogacar last year, built his success in the mountains. He first took the yellow jersey from Pogacar in the Alps with a memorable ride up the Col du Granon, and followed up this week with an impressive display of strength in the last Pyrenean stage to the resort of Hautacam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vingegaard also had the upper hand in the race against the clock, gaining more time on Pogacar in Saturday\u2019s individual time trial to effectively secure the title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pogacar finished runner-up overall and Geraint Thomas, the 2018 Tour winner, completed the podium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jasper Philipsen won Sunday\u2019s last stage \u2014 a mainly processional ride around Paris to the Champs-Elysees \u2014 in a sprint ahead of Dylan Groenewegen and Alexander Kristoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, jul 24 (AP) \u2014 Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark won his first Tour de France title on Sunday after coming out on top in a thrilling three-week duel with defending champion Tadej Pogacar. The 25-year-old Vingegaard became the first Danish rider to win cycling\u2019s biggest race since Bjarne Riis in 1996. Vingegaard, who was runner-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}