Pogacar got his revenge and put Vingegaard on the ropes at the Tour de France

A double champion in the Tour de France as Tadej Pogacar (2020, 2021) is not giving up and this Thursday, after Danish Jonas Vingegaardlast year’s champion, gave him a serious shake on the stage on Wednesday, and when everyone was waiting for the moment when he would try to deal another heavy blow to the Slovenian in Vingegaard, the character of the winner of ‘Handsome’ took all the limelight.

There were about three kilometers left on the final stretch of the day’s last mountainous difficulty (cauterets, 16.2 km at an average gradient of 5.3%). the Belgian wout van aert He opened up after starring in another cycling lesson in favor of his leader, vingegaardand had to be pushed by the fans when he was stuck, without the slightest strength, when Pogacar wanted to warn the sailors and his greatest rivals road to paristhe team Jumbo-Visma and vingegaardwho responds to the attack from the Dane the day before with a trademark of the house arreón that further pressures the race and shows that what happened in the first contact of Pyrenees just one bad day and he’s in top shape to fight for the Tour throne he took from him last year. Jonas Vingegaard.

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Dane and his team started sTour de France dayof 144.9 kilometers, in between Tarbes and Cauterets-Cambasquewith a strong conviction of trying to put against the ropes pogacarto make him stagger, trusting that the leader of the UAE Team Emirates He can have another bad day and the reference of the Dutch formation increases his difference with the general.

There is terrain and more than enough to experience another great day of cycling on the Tour, with the challenging climbs of Col d’Aspin, Col du Tourmalet and cauteretsand vingegaard He fully followed the plan designed in the meeting before leaving, but they expected Pogacar to give them the answer he did.

Vingegaard first tried the Pogacar in the Tourmalet

Left behind Aspen and on the last ramps of Tourmalet, vingegaard he took action, executed the designed plan and after his team did another day of great work. Chief Hindley I didn’t keep up and vingegaard he became the virtual leader of the race. There are still 45 kilometers to go and just over three more to crown Tourmalet (17 km in 7.45) when Vingegaard accelerated. Unlike the previous day, Pogacar stuck to his wheel. He was seen suffering, and both crowned the top Souvenir Jacques Goddet with a margin of 1’55” at the leader Hindley, to do his best, viz Michael Landawho so far is not finding his best legs on Tour.

Both launched at full speed in a dangerous descent where they reached almost 100 km/h. In Jumbo-Visma they were satisfied with the work done: “Well done, Vingegaard. You pushed Pogacar to the limit. Well done.” Perhaps they did not count that Jonas was very tired and if Tadej went to the limit he would have found a way to come back from him.

An interesting little group formed at the head of the race, towards the cauretetsuntil the end they were the only ones leading the race Van Aert, Pogacar and Vingegaard. The Belgian pulled away all the time until it was empty, with Vingegaard clinging to his wheel and Pogacar in third place and looking in pain. The key to this tense climb of just over 16 kilometers is in the last two kilometers, when the slope is about 12%, to which must be added the effort made throughout the day.

And this is certainly the most difficult ramp of cauterets already vingegaard He launched a dry and deadly attack that Vingegaard didn’t know how to respond to. The only thing the Dane can do is focus on picking up his pace and not losing too much time. Pogacar put the turbo on and ended up winning the stage by a 24-second margin proud, to which the bonus had to be added, and to which he was left with the comfort of wearing the leader’s yellow jersey, but with the displeasure of seeing that it still caused the Slovenian beast to wake up early in the long this journey. of adventures, joy, pain and tears that is the Tour de France.