The danish Jonas Vingegaard Slovenian has been recognized Tadej Pogacar is the “strongest” in the Tour and assured that he had to “resign himself to being second if he had not a bad day.”
“He showed all his strength. But I will not fail, on the contrary. I think I had one of the best periods of my life. And it took me a minute. I can only congratulate him and acknowledge that he is the strongest,” commented the Visma cyclist, who is now second overall, 3.09 behind Pogacar.
“If he maintains this level, I will have to resign myself to being second”added the winner of the last two editions, whose preparations for a third crown were cut short by a fall in April at the Vuelta al País Vasco that kept him hospitalized for more than a month.
The Dane pointed out that, from now on, the race will enter another dimension: “I have nothing to lose. It seems difficult to win this Tour, but Tadej can have a bad day, we’ve seen it in the past. This is all I can hope for. If he keeps the level, it will be difficult.”
Source: La Verdad
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