And who said the time trial wouldn’t be key in the Tour

When, at the end of last October, the route of Tour de France This year, the small weight that the time trial will have on the luck of the race is outstanding, with only one CRI not even reaching 23 kilometers. And now it appears that in the moment of truth it can be decisive to know whether Jonas Vingegaard repeating the success achieved last year and double followed or if Tadej Pogacar he is attacking the Tour throne that the Dane took from him last year.

It may be short, but the fact that its mileage is not excessive does not reach 23 kilometers, it does not mean that the outcome of the test ends up being transcendental for him, especially with the profile presented by CRI at the end. in a second-class port category that in more than one and two runners seems to be the Tourmalet.

An individual time trial that also has the honor of finishing combloux for the first time in the history of the Tour, a city that had a French poet, playwright and novelist Victor Hugo in one of its most famous visitors and identified it as ‘the pearl of the Alps‘. His probably best-known work, ‘Les miserables’, will be the opposite of the stellar category of sporting rigor that the two great protagonists of the Tour style, vingegaard and pogacaroffering us all one of the most impressive, contested and contested Tours to be remembered in years, in which the young man from Granada also carlos rodriguez (22 years old) can step on the podium of Paris if force and luck accompany him to the end, which Spanish cycling has not reached since then Alejandro Valverde (2015).

This time trial is auspicious, generating unprecedented expectations in the recent history of the Tour and the result will not only mark the most likely outcome of the ‘Grande Boucle’, but also the way it was run, the attitude of cyclists. in the remaining stages until arriving on Sunday at Paris.