Vingegaard: “Maybe I should have attacked Tadej, but my goal was not to lose his tire”

the danish Jonas Vingegaardtest leader, was satisfied with the result of the fifteenth stage of the Tour, which ended in a draw in his battle with the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, and assured that perhaps he should have attacked him, but his purpose was to stay on his wheel.

“We are watching each other all the time, for my part I only think about being by his side, it is my goal (…) Today I was fine, maybe I should attack, but we are in a kind of bluffing poker game between the two of us and when it jumped adam yates I thought it was unreasonable to go out,” he said.

Vingegaard pointed out that he has not lost confidence and said he is looking forward to the next few days to tackle the remaining stages.

In particular, he indicated that the time trial route, which is flat in the first part and uphill at the end, is good for his characteristics: “It’s short but I like short time trials, it’s hard to find the rhythm and I like it when there’s a lot of change in rhythm.”

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Although he will be the last to take the scheduled initiation, he made sure that he will not look at the references of others and will focus on doing the best possible.

Regarding the fact that the improvement in performance could revive suspicions about the return of doping in the peloton, Vingegaard indicated that “it is normal because of the past that cycling has” and invited “to continue to be skeptical so as not to repeat the past. itself”. , but considering that the improvement in the modernization “of nutrition, training, material,…”