One, two, three, four and five, now one of the six he achieved this year in Italy is spinning. Tomorrow, at Good final time trial Tadej Pogacar will have a chance to match the record of victories in both races and even said no one will win in both seasons is Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France. Tomorrow, 26 years later, Pogacar will be able to repeat this brand that has not been repeated since Marco Pantani since 1998.
This is the penultimate stage of Tour de France 2024 a difficult and confusing scenario, starting in Nice and ending in Col de la Couillole. A day of 132.8 kilometers, with four mountain passes, the final height and 4,752 meters of elevation gain. A day where that can be imagined a priori Pogacar He will take it in stride and it should be up to everyone else to try to be the star, especially when there are great riders and teams leaving the Tour without debuting; but when push came to shove, the king of the Tour added more acres to his reign.
Pogacar is placed on a plate
Due to the profile of the stage and the race conditions, a large breakaway developed at the start, which they eventually survived. Enric Mas and an amazing Richard Carapaz, already won a stage in this Tour and also won the mountain in this last stage. At the back of Soudal team of Landa and Evenepoel have taken control of the celebrities and they are the ones who in the moment of truth remove themselves to try to reduce the difference that the escapees have, in the best scenarios for a Pogacar there is no satiety that does not forgive.
At the beginning of Couillole cabbagethe last climb of the day, 14 kilometers from the finish line, the escapees had a 2’46” margin over the group of favourites, which did not include Granada-born Carlos rodriguezwhere the Tour became too long.
The difference is reduced, especially when Almeida, Pogacar’s partner, he started shooting. Up front, Carapaz and Mas entertain the fans with a gentlemanly duel, but the group of celebrities is on them and it will be some time before they reach their level. Landa couldn’t keep up with the top four and in the end the hunting party only consisted of the best three. Pogacar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel.
Vingegaard beat Evenepoel
Mas and Carapaz They were chased 3 kilometers from the finish line and Evenepoel Several times he tried to measure Vingegaard’s strength, to see if the Dane was right, until after the second push the double winner of the Tour de France pulled his pride and stripes to move himself and leave Remco. Vingegaard, Pogacar, Carapaz and Others They were alone at the head of the stage. Enric, chosen as the toughest runner of the day, will give up, and Carapacetired after the beating he gave himself for a while.
The two best remained. The two great protagonists of the last four Tours. SA Pogacar It’s hard for him to take over Vingegaard and, as written, 200 meters from the finish Tadej attacked and again his explosion led him to achieve the fifth victory in this Tour before a feisty Vingegaaard, who again died with boots on and got of second place in the final.
Five bent that could be six this Sunday in the final time trial road to Nice.
Source: La Verdad
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