Pogacar corners Vingegaard further after the Grand Colombier and he is now 9 seconds back, victory for Kwiatkowski

Passed the exam for the head of 110th edition of the Tour de Francethe danish Jonas Vingeggard. Within your team, Jumbo-Vismathere is a certain fear of the challenge that threatens this Friday, a national holiday in France, the climb to Grand Colombier, denouement scene of the 13th episode of ‘Grande Boucle’. The profile of this special category port, crowned for the second time in the Tour, is more in line with the physical conditions of Tadej Pogacar. The Slovenian and his team, UAE Team Emirates, they are clear about it and they are clear about the tactics to follow. In the end, the harvest is not as desired, but they can say that after checking the Grand Colombier Pogacar is closer to the leader, a Jonas Vingegaard who wore yellow this Friday for the seventh time in this Tour and saw how his great rival cut eight of the 17 seconds that separated him from a Pogacar who was only nine seconds from the throne of the Tour he took from him last year the danish.

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The plan designed did not work for the UAE because they let the flight take too much time on the approach to Grand Colombier and because of the moment of truth, on the climb, Michal Kwiatkowski At the age of 33, he showed his best version to achieve his 41st professional victory, the second of the season and the second of a three-week cycling tour, after the one achieved in La Roche-sur-Foron on the 2020 Tour.

It is one of those days that is defined as the key to the development of a career and that later, in the moment of truth, are not as impressive as expected, nor do they make much of a difference. The design of the stage invited expectations, it was one of the shortest stages this year, only 137.8 km, single-port, with the challenge of a difficult and long final climb to Grand Colombier, 17 kilometers at an average slope of 7% and ramps that rise up to 14%. The fans, one day more, were not disappointed and took the ditches of the road, in one of the climbs that are fun to contemplate because of the plasticity and beauty of the images it leaves as it progresses.

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In the escape there is no recognized climber and this means that of the 17 initial runners who made it, only the strongest remain. They started with a 3’48” margin in the group of favorites and the key was whether the heavyweights of the peloton would chase them down. In the group of notables U.A.E do a great job. runners like it Trent either Marc Soler imposed a brutal rhythm on the final climb, while ahead Kwiatkowski he is alone.

Meter by meter the 14 strongest riders of the Tour are included in the group of favourites: Bardet, Pinot, Landa, Castroviejo or Bilbao they stepped aside. It only remained to be seen when the UAE would act, and it did adam yates 2.1 kilometers from the finish line. It was too late for the Briton to win the stage as planned. Although the development of Arab Emirates He missed this first shot, a bullet was hidden in the chamber.

Pogacar’s brutal attack

And 400 meters from the finish line, Pogacar launched a brutal attack, of enormous force, similar to the one that served him in 2020 at the same stage to defeat his compatriot. Roglic is a cousin. Vingegaard immediately responded, shadowing her throughout the stage and climb. The first meters of the attack are important. The two stood on top of the bike giving it their all, until the third day in a row on the mountain vingegaard He raised his foot and Pogacar went to the finish line alone.

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Eventually, pogacar he was ahead of him by four seconds, which added to the four he gained for being third at the finish line, represented a yield of eight good seconds subtracted from the 17 he had. vingegaard. The Dane leaves the first head-to-head of this weekend’s decisive triptych with nine seconds in front of the general standings. There are now two stages in the Alpsof extreme hardness, more favorable in theory to vingegaard. Will Pogacar continue cutting time for the next two days?