The Tour de France Grande Pearl in the Basque Country did not end badly for Jumbo Visma, but the first two stages did not go according to plan either.

Sunday's second stage to San Sebastián saw sprinter Wout Van Aert miss a chance to win for the second day in a row, falling behind Victor Lafaye (Cofidis).

The Belgian did not speak to the media after the disappointing result, and Cyclingnews was on site to see Van Aert get off the Jumbo-Visma team bus and drive to the team hotel while his teammates remained on the bus. He threw down his bicycle when he arrived at the bus just after the stage.

Meanwhile, Tour champion Jonas Vingegaard appeared calm despite being seven seconds down on his rival for the maillot jaune, Tadej Pogachar (UAE Team Emirates), in the 209km stage.

Pogachar said after the stage that Van Aat's behavior was "like a child."

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Some Belgian media fanned the cracks in the Jumbo-Visma camp, suggesting that the Dane was not working hard enough for Van Aert, but Vingegaard expressed a different view when he emerged from the team bus at Miramar Kalea, more than a kilometer from the finish line.

"I don't think this is fair either," Vingegaard replied when asked about the fairness of the charges leveled against him. 'I think I already did something for Wout. I could have selfishly pulled a pogachar, so in that case it also helped in a way in that I didn't pull it."

"I just focus on GC. Of course, we all have different goals. I think everyone is very disappointed, as am I.

"I'm 17 seconds behind race leader Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) and 11 seconds behind Pogachar going into the first sprint stage to Bayonne.

Despite this time loss, Vingegaard said, "The Tour will probably not be decided by four seconds."

"Personally, I had no problems. 'Of course I wanted to win with Wout. In a way, I probably lost less time than I thought with the bonus seconds. So in that sense, it was good. But of course, we came here today to win.

"The worst-case scenario was that [Pogachar] would take 18 seconds and I would take nothing. He gets 12 seconds and I get 5 seconds, so of course that's much better.

After a tricky first two days of racing, he had no complaints about his conditions.

"I'm really happy with my conditions. I'm really happy with my condition. I feel good, I'm in great shape."

Jumbo Visma's Sportif coaches also made the media rounds outside the team bus and spent more time talking through the stage than the team's star riders.

For veteran DS Fran Massen, who has worked for the team for more than 20 years, Vingegaard was right to focus on Pogachar when the Slovenian made his move in Yaizkibel.

"Of course, he focused on Pogachar as much as possible," Massen told the waiting Dutch and Belgian media scrum.

"In hindsight, he could have done a lot, but you can't count on Rafai attacking in the last kilometer. Wout could have caught Rafai, but then he would have lost the sprint to Pogachar.

"It's easy to speak in hindsight, but we should have done things differently," he added.

"We were so close to winning the championship, it's a shame to miss it. However, we saw a super team and we have to hang on to it. We'll continue on to the next day."