Pogacar shot with a bullet: “Visma is afraid of me, but I’m not afraid of them”

Tadej Pogacar considered this Monday that Jonas Vingegaard was trying to destabilize his mind in the Tour de France, but he noted that he is not afraid of that game.

“If what they are looking for affects my thinking, they will not achieve it.“, indicated on the first rest day of the Tour the winner of the last Giro d’Italia, overall leader with 33 seconds on the Belgian Remco Evenepoel and 1.15 with Vingegaard.

Pogacar pointed out that the Dane’s team, Dutch Visma, is looking for a tactic against him, but he noted that he is not falling into their trap.

“We saw it on this Sunday’s stage (with unpaved sections), they were racing mebut I’m used to it,” said the UAE runner.

The Slovenian pointed out that there is a double standard in the Dane’s team, difficult against him and different against Evenepoel.

“When Remco attacked, Visma stopped him because they were focused on me.“said Pogacar, who compared the attitude of Vingegaard’s team and praised Evenepoel’s.

“It was the first time I ran a grand tour against him and he was a very good rival. “I like it when rivals go at their best,” he said.

In the face of this, he criticized the attitude of Vingegaard’s team: “The Visma are afraid of me, but I am not afraid of them. This Sunday, I was more afraid of Remco, it was like he was flying on the road,” he said.

In addition, he accused the Dane of underestimating his state of form, which is better than he says.

“When you run very fast in San Luca, you are in good shape. The way he running, the way his teammates are doing the race tells me that he is in good shape,” he said.

“I think he’s trying to say that he’s in worse shape. But that doesn’t matter to me, I focus on my legs and try to have fun on the bike,” he commented.