Tadej Pogacar This removes all the doubts that were there. Many rivers of ink and many words have been spilled to try to analyze what might happen in the harsh final triptych of the high mountains where the 111th edition of the Tour de France and especially this Friday in the first and most difficult attack that awaits the 143 runners who started with Embrun. The Slovenian race leader himself, a double winner of the Tour in 2020 and 2021, said going into the 19th stage that he considered it the day of the queen of the Tour and as the king of the peloton, he is. act on the 19th of July to achieve a new startling victory in Island 2000the 15th in the Tour de France, the fourth in this edition and also serves, except for a big setback, to end the race and start taste his third Tour de France at just 25 years old.
The truth is that this stage setting is one that invites fun. A groundbreaking, short and explosive stage, 144.6 kilometers long, with constant ups and downs, no breaks, with two special category ports (Col de Vars, 18.9 km at 5.6%; and the Cime de la Bonette (23.1 km at 6.8%) above 2,000 meters and the latter reaches almost to the sky at 2,800 meters, on the highest road in Europe and the highest peak climbed by the Tour in its history, before facing the first category of climbing -climbing of Island 2000 (16.1 km at 7.1%).
At the start, a breakaway of 21 runners formed, where VismaThe group of Vingegaardwants to be famous for having Jorgenson and Kelderman. The leak will break as the stage progresses and behind the UAE team He controls the speed of the best. No one will know when and who will move, if there will be an attack from afar, from very far or in the last kilometers, meanwhile Pogacar He played by letting himself fall behind this elite group.
The pace set was devastating and caused confusion among the runners. The whole team of UAE gregarious They are empty for Pogacar. Strictly obeying the orders that came to them from the car, while Vingegaard I was alone and Evenepoel was well covered by a landa hideous.
Pogacar, from another planet
Ahead, only 13.2 kilometers from the finish line, the American Jorgenson attacked and left, abandoned Simon Yates and Richard Carapaz, the only one who followed them. I searched Visma the victory on the stage, but Pogacar will not allow it.
8.7 kilometers from the finish line, Tadej He attacked and no one could follow him. Evenepoel he answered and his tire got stuck Vingegaard, but they let him go before he died in the ordeal. The Slovenian climbed like a motorcycle. At 28 km/h on 7% ramps. It devoured the kilometers at breakneck speed. “You can, you can,” they told him from the car. And if he can! Pogacar smells the blood and wants to eat the victim. At 2.1 km only eight seconds separated him Jorgenson, which he would catch at 1.8 kilometers for a trademark victory. It’s thrilling. Stratospheric, to judge the Tour and a dedicated fan’s delirium.
Source: La Verdad
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