Tour de France: Vingegaard 1-Pogacar 0

Between the two of them they have won the last four editions of the Tour de France. Tadej Pogacar (25 years old) winners of the 2020 and 2021 editions and Jonas Vingegaard (27 years old) in 2022 and 2023, but both came at the start of the Tour jump-off in very different conditions.

‘Handsome’ after sweeping the Italy is spinning and completing the first of the season to frame, smiling at the starting line of first stage in Florence and even half-jokingly saying that his presence at ‘Corsa Rosa’ This is training for ‘Big Boucle’. And andl ‘Pale Rider’ rsurrounded by a sea of ​​doubts after the terrible fall experienced in Itzuliaespecially behind closed doors, it didn’t even help his claims that it was already a miracle to see him on the starting line of the Tour and lowered his expectations of fighting for the final victory.

An uncertainty that was maintained in a first phase that presented the perfect terrain for Pogacar I’ll try to see how it goes Vingegaard, on a very hot day, more than 200 kilometers and with seven scoring passes.

There was only slight movement at the head of the remarkable peloton 70 kilometers from the finish line, when Pogacar sent his UAE colleagues so they can force the rhythm. Nor was this a furious attack, merely an increase in the speed of the march, in which the Visma team and he himself readily responded.

In fact, several kilometers away from Vingegaard and his team continued to command the group of notables and he himself sent a message of calm to his men saying that he was all right.

is saved Vingegaard this first attack, but neither he nor his entourage should claim victory, with Pogacar you do not know, the shadow of Galibier on Tuesday was very long and Pogacar, perhaps not satisfied with what happened in this first round of the Tour, declared that “in San Luca there will be more difference between the favourites”, in the outcome of the second stage this Sunday.