The Belgian Remco Evenepoel He made sure he attacked on the way down Superdévoluy because he already understood Danish Jonas Vingegaard “he is not in a good moment”, but his goal is not to seize the second position, but to stabilize the third.
“I’m not looking at second position, in a stage like today I’m better than him, but in the remaining high mountain stages he is better. I’m sure they have plans for those days. I’m going to try to consolidate the third position “said the Soudal cyclist.
Evenepoel gained twenty seconds over Vingegaard and is now 1’58”, an advantage he considers “very high” in favor of the Dane.
“I saw that he was not on his best day, at the foot of the Superdevoluy one of his teammates was pulling, but the pace was not very fast. From the car they told me that my teammate Jan Hirt and that’s why I jumped. I gained a few seconds , But that’s not the important thing,” he said.
With four stages remaining, Slovenian Tadej Pogacar leads the Tour with a 3’11” lead over Vingegaard and 5’09” over Evenepoel.
For its part, the Spanish Mikel Landafifth overall in the Tour, made sure he focused on keeping his place in the seventeenth stage when he saw his leader, the Belgian Remco Evenepoel It went well.
“The three in front are unreachable and I have focused on controlling those at the back. With Pogacar’s attack I made sure that Remco would not be cut and if I could help him, but it is not necessary, he is very strong,” he said.
Landa assured that the stage was very difficult because “there was very little left and everyone wanted to burn their last cartridge.”
Regarding his leader, who attacked at the end and took 12 seconds off the Dane Jonas Vingegaard in the fight for second place, Landa assured: “He has to try, find the opportunity. If he is as strong as he is now, he can do it.”
“These few seconds are good for morale and to touch the enemy’s morale,” he said.
Landa admitted that he didn’t expect Pogacar’s attack, because he hadn’t given any sign of it on stage, but he assured that “that’s how Tadej is.”
Source: La Verdad
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