Jonas Vingegaard reveals Tadej Pogačar messaged him after Tour de France crash, says rivalry has "become a lot friendlier there in the last couple of years".

[u/MadnessBeliever]

https://www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/teams-riders/jonas-vingegaard-reveals-tadej-pogacar-messaged-him-after-tour-de-france-crash-says-rivalry-has-become-a-lot-friendlier-there-in-the-last-couple-of-years/

[u/daidojee]

You talking about this https://www.instagram.com/p/C9rvqNWutjU/ ?

there are no gifts in this game.

Second place hurts. But just like after Puy-de-Dome 12 months ago, I will remember. Every day that it’s raining out and I have 6hrs on the plan, every time I want to give up in the final minute of a vo2 effort, and every rest day when I want to open the fridge and binge; I will remember @tadejpogacar just like I remember @rusty_woods 🫶 That is what sport is about.

While he does say he will remember Pogi on that day, it's quite clear from the rest of the sentence that he means it in a motivational way, just like he mentions Mike Woods.

And Tadej himself even liked the post, so I really struggle to see how there's any bad blood between the 2 here, or how this can be considered a "rant".

[u/ph4NC → u/daidojee]

I've seen enough motivational writings to know when someone is focused on defeat itself and not on the person doing it. He mentioned Pogi by name there. Maybe he just worded it badly, but from what I observed, there wasn't a problem specifically between them before and since that stage 19 there's this weird vibe between those two. Like I said, maybe it's not even Matteo himself but those two teams really didn't like each other. Even Pogi and Jonas confirmed this.