Evenepoel and Pogacar criticize Vingegaard: “Sometimes you also have to have the balls to run”

A cycling battle that remains a concern ended yesterday Troyesin banks of the River Sena, an exciting stage, where the dirt sections caused much nervousness to the teams and cyclists and passion to the fans. I can not have the first week of Tour de France a better outcome, with a day closely contested by the main race favorites, but at the end of the race the first eight positions remained unchanged in order and time.

Perhaps for this reason, the first two classified overall, Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoelafter seeing that their The ‘sterrato’ attacks did not do the desired damage and always found a response from a ‘conservative’ Jonas Vingegaardthey wanted to move a little further when they put a microphone in front of them.

“Visma only looks at me and looks down on others, I think they can pay for it. It can be expensive for them. I think without team orders it’s different. He (referring to Vingegaard) has companions in the peloton, but they only think about my tire, not Remco’s or Primoz’s,” said a Pogacar. who yesterday had 28 days wearing the leader’s yellow jersey, one more than Jonas Vingegaard.

Minutes later Remco Evenepoel gave his opinion along the same lines as ‘Pogi’: “It’s a shame that Jonas didn’t ride with us, maybe the race ended there. That’s their tactic, we can’t do anything. They will play defensively and we have to accept it. But it turned out strange. We were three favorites and had a lead of about 40 seconds. “If we went ahead and engaged the leading group, it would have been fatal.”

And then, Evenepoel He raised the level of his statements: “I don’t think Tadej and I are happy because I think maybe the Tour podium could have been decided now. We have to accept the tactics and the racing situations, but sometimes you also have to have the balls to run. Unfortunately, Jonas “I’m not here now”.

Vingegaard replied

Meanwhile, Jonas Vingegaard follows the script established by his team, because we must remember that the Dane, the winner of the last two editions of the Tour de France, arrived at the Grande Boucle directly from Itzulia, in April, where he suffered. a very hard fall. In this sense, the leader of Team Visma-Lease a Bike was satisfied after the performance shown on the dirt tracks.

“We didn’t think of shooting on breakaways, it’s better to recover more teammates in case of unexpected events. Our goal at this stage is not to waste time so it is better to wait. But I am satisfied that I overtook him and lost no time in this dangerous journey for me.“said the Danish rider, who punctured twice and was lucky that his Dutch team teammate Jan Tratnik gave him his bike yesterday.