Lampaert flew through a dangerous time test and dressed as leader, Pogacar fearful at first

Passed the first exam 109th edition of the Tour de France, And it’s not just a test. It’s true that the cycling students did their homework well and bent their elbows, but all the runners found a route that took them. 13 kilometers of a technical individual time test, with some surface changes, with different types of asphalt and even cobblestone, with relatively slow corners where you have to stop and start and fast corners that more slippery due to rain. Too much is at stake to play it from the beginning.

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A delicate panorama that not all cyclists face with the same intensity, depending on their career aspirations and their bike skills, and proof of this are some of the falls experienced by the Swiss, for example. Stefan Bissegger or the times when the wheel went back Enrique More oa Lampaert. In runners who are called to do good things in racing, in general, the adage of avoiding dangerous situations, avoiding taking too much risk and going with all five senses on the road is established. In everyone’s memory, the serious collapse of Alexander Valverde at the opening time trial 2017 tourswhich started with Dusseldorf (Germany).

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All eyes are focused on the Italian world champion Filippo Gannabut the giant Verbania cannot display all the features it values, partly because of the route design, and, apparently the Belgian Van Aert take the victory, appear an outstanding Yves Lampert. Van Aert’s compatriot gave a surprise and made the second part of the stratospheric time trial, because in the lone previous capture, located at kilometer six, the fastest was the French Christophe Laporte (7.29.54), followed by Dutch Bauke Mollema (7.31,33) and from Mathieu Van der Poel (7.31.90). Behind them, primoz roglic (7.31.17), Wout Van Aert (7.32.51), mad petersen (7.32.71) at ‘Pippo’ Ganna (7.33.86).

The big favorite for the final victory in Paris, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacarlooking for his third consecutive Tour, has set just a 13th best time, eight seconds behind Laporte, but the ‘beast’ will have a late awakening this Friday to fly into the second half of the track, as Lampaertwhich made only the eighth best time in the first six kilometers. ‘Handsome’ without much compulsion, he did well the words of his director Joxean Matxin who after seeing his student’s performance defined it as “good. Pogacar saved the danger. The circuit was complicated. We saved the day”. Despite this, and without giving the impression of excessive compulsion, Pogacar set the third best time of day, seven seconds slower than Lampaert, nine faster than its main rival in theory, primoz roglicand eight is the second threat, Jonas Viongegaard.

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The best Spanish is the Ineos runner Jonathan Castroviejo, 36 seconds behind Lampaert, with a Enrique More seeking security to finish a regular test in time -68th, 56 seconds from the fastest- without excess, where the main thing is to get out without injury and in full physical condition to deal with dangerous also stage this Saturday, where all all eyes are on 18 kilometers of Great Belt Bridge about him Baltic Sea, where gusts of wind can cause confusion. We need to be careful.