{"id":119253,"date":"2026-04-28T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/tour-de-romandie-dorian-godon-wins-prologue-as-tadej-pogacar-falls-short\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:34:30","slug":"tour-de-romandie-dorian-godon-wins-prologue-as-tadej-pogacar-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/tour-de-romandie-dorian-godon-wins-prologue-as-tadej-pogacar-falls-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Romandie: Dorian Godon wins prologue as Tadej Poga\u010dar falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-f704c86d-93f1-437f-a25e-f4d304c4ce8e\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/dorian-godon\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/dorian-godon\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/dorian-godon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorian Godon<\/a> (Ineos Grenadiers) has taken a surprise victory in the opening prologue of the Tour de Romandie, with lead favourite <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/tadej-pogacar\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/tadej-pogacar\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/tadej-pogacar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) finishing a full seven seconds behind.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Frenchman timed his effort perfectly for the short but intense race against the clock round the town of Villars-sur-Gl\u00e2ne, reaching the top of the final 800 metre climb six seconds faster than closest rival Ivo Oliveira (UAE Team Emirates-XRG). Jakob S\u00f6derqvist (Lidl &#8211; Trek) was just a few hundredths of a second slower but had to settle for third.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"elk-f704c86d-93f1-437f-a25e-f4d304c4ce8e-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Making his debut in the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-de-romandie\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-de-romandie\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-de-romandie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de Romandie<\/a> and the last of 103 riders to tackle the 3.2 kilometre course, Poga\u010dar delivered a solid, incident-free <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tag\/performance\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tag\/performance\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tag\/performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">performance<\/a> in his first time trial of 2026.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-continues-below block py-2 text-sm\">Article continues below <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"inline-block w-2.5 h-2.5 ml-2\" fill=\"currentColor\" preserveaspectratio=\"xMidYMid meet\" viewbox=\"0 0 1000 1000\"><path d=\"M1000 100L500 900 0 100h1000z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-2 pb-0 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10; 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Godon said, &#8220;Particularly if they&#8217;re punchy efforts like this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;We won here last year with Sam [Watson, teammate] so we know what it takes to do well here in a prologue and I measured my effort very well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;Overall, I can&#8217;t be sure what I&#8217;m able of doing here, it&#8217;s a very difficult course, but just having the jersey on day one is already a big success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-yLcG9qA2WGXK7jN4KwRqta\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-yLcG9qA2WGXK7jN4KwRqta slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><em>More to come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-results\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-body__section\" id=\"section-results\"><span>Results<\/span><\/h3>\n<p id=\"elk-722f0588-5ece-4a9b-bc7e-e33ccbfc3305\"><em><strong>Results powered by<\/strong><\/em><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><em><strong> FirstCycling<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-7696a1c9-b7fe-490a-82cf-18361babb282\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><iframe allow=\"\" height=\"410\" width=\"100%\" id=\"\" style=\"\" class=\"position-center\" data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/widget\/?r=12&amp;y=2026&amp;s=00&amp;lang=EN&amp;cn=1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/tour-de-romandie-dorian-godon-wins-prologue-as-tadej-pogacar-falls-short\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorian Godon (Ineos Grenadiers) has taken a surprise victory in the opening prologue of the Tour de Romandie, with lead favourite Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) finishing a full seven seconds behind. The 29-year-old Frenchman timed his effort perfectly for the short but intense race against the clock round the town of Villars-sur-Gl\u00e2ne, reaching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}