Vingegaard, the king of the mallet

This Tour de France It has been exciting, and in the rivalry established by the two best riders of the moment, that has been vingegaard and pogacar, was resolved in a similar manner last year. A stage, at its worst, at Courchevelwhere he surrendered pogacar, and he took 4’45”, preceded by the time trial, which put him at 1’39”. That’s why I say the king of the deck, because in 2022 the same thing happened. In the hardest stage of the Tour, the day of Galibier and of Granonhe took less time, but opened an impressive gap, 2’51”.

pogacar He has been the victim of circumstances that the team has to examine, the broken wrist, short preparation, excessive aggressiveness, a thousand details, some health issues that may have damaged the Slovenian at the beginning of the third week, all of that will be examined. And then until their fight, it was great. The first week ended in a draw, the second week the two stayed one-on-one, in a give and take, they made up time with bonuses and attacked very aggressively. The second week is for the Spaniards, incredible, it is the Tour of the return of the Spaniards, and the third week is very favorable for vingegaard.

I say the Spanish Tour because they won three stages –Ion Izagirre, Pello Bilbao and Carlos Rodríguez– Two cyclists were in the top 10 overall, 5th Carlos and 6th Pello, this reminds me a lot of the 90’s Tour, which we didn’t win, he won Lemon and thin parakeet is 4th, lejarreta 5th, there’s a stage, I’m 6th, like Bilbao hairI know him, and it’s the 10th Miguel Indurain that forewarned that next year he would win the Tour.

It has been an exciting Tour in every way, because of the Spanish victories, because of the moderate mountain stages, where the riders want. Mohoric they argue all over, where Campenaerts It was very brave, there were very brave runners and the leaks came in the second and third week; Even the sprints are good. The best of the last day at Paris to the success of Jordi Meuus and four sprinters on the line, less than half a wheel.

The great winner is vingegaard who took 7’29” in pogacar, which left a good taste in the mouth, because he also won the white jersey, he won the stages, he was a great rival, and he won the penultimate stage well. Points for Philipsen and the three stages achieved, the mountain for ciccone and the equipment for Jumbo-Vismawhich became the strongest team in all fields.

Too aggressive is Victor Campenaertsa fair choice for me, and the revelation, which is no longer a classification, but an understanding that I have, Felix Gallthe corridor of AG2Rwho was 8th overall, went away and won the stage of Courchevel after one stage, and has grown to the penultimate stage.

If I also have to say the best riders in the team, which is a distinction that should also be given to riders, like Sepp Kussthe best partner for vengeanced on the mountain, and wout van aert, in all lands, in difficult places and on mountains. It is necessary to highlight van der poelthe best pitcher he ever had Philipsenand we should also highlight Jonathan Castroviejoworking for ‘Carlitos’ and all with him in ehe is Ineos in the end he made the 15th. They are great cyclists that should also be mentioned.

ends with an exciting Tour de France and a great one awaits us Lap with the participation of vingegaard and we will see how Jumbo-Visma raised the lead and the double head Roglic Vingegaardwith the evenepoelwith the Enric More, together Juan Ayuso… The exciting Lapbut before the World Cup and we are back.

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