Visma-Lease a Bike increased their pace during the final climbs of stage 6 but fell short of catching Tadej Pogačar's UAE team. They narrowly missed retaining the yellow jersey by just one second. Mathieu van der Poel claimed the yellow jersey, having outperformed Pogačar's team. Visma's Head of Racing noted UAE's decision to give up the jersey was not their concern. Jonas Vingegaard faced scrutiny after a disappointing time trial, where he lost over a minute to Pogačar. While reasons for his time loss were acknowledged, the team chose not to disclose specifics.
Mathieu took it by one second. We wanted a hard race and we wanted to fight for the stage from the break. In the end, we had Simon there, he had a chance but Ben Healy was in a class of his own and deserved the victory.
It was something specific to the time trial but we're going to keep the information internally in the team.
Yesterday was a tough day for me. I was definitely disappointed, as I should be.
If UAE wants to give the jersey away, that's their problem.
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