{"id":15566,"date":"2025-06-09T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/criterium-du-dauphine-tadej-pogacar-wins-sprint-to-claim-opening-stage\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T00:01:49","slug":"criterium-du-dauphine-tadej-pogacar-wins-sprint-to-claim-opening-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/criterium-du-dauphine-tadej-pogacar-wins-sprint-to-claim-opening-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Criterium du Dauphine: Tadej Pogacar wins sprint to claim opening stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I switched my focus around 2k to go to prepare for sprint and it worked,&#8221; said Pogacar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I knew that Van der Poel was the fastest, obviously, in this group. But after a finish like this, you cannot count all of the rest out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pogacar earned 10 bonus second for his win, while Vingegaard received six seconds and Van der Poel four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Criterium du Dauphine will be contested over eight stages, which include a time trial, as the riders prepare for the start of the Tour de France on 5 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stage two on Monday will be a 204.6km run from Premilhat to Issoire. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c4gejk55qkqo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I switched my focus around 2k to go to prepare for sprint and it worked,&#8221; said Pogacar. &#8220;I knew that Van der Poel was the fastest, obviously, in this group. But after a finish like this, you cannot count all of the rest out.&#8221; Pogacar earned 10 bonus second for his win, while Vingegaard received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15568,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions\/15568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}