Tables on the first battle of the Pyrenees between Vingegaard and Pogacar

Good appetizer served on the table 16th stage of the Tour de France, waiting for waiters to serve starters and the main courses tomorrow and the next day, with dessert always topping up with a delicious meal reserved for next Saturday. In the first of three life or death battles that take place these days in Pyrenees the great star became a canadian cyclist Hugo Houle (Israel-Premier Tech), which achieved a great and important success, full of highly sentimental content. Important because it was his third professional success since he started shooting in 2011 on the set Spidertech Powered by C10 and important for his team, especially in his countryman’s third place Michael Woods in the struggle maintained by the Israeli group to maintain the category world tour at the end of the season. And sentimental because the broker Sainte-Perpetue had emotional memories for his younger brother Pierrickwho died in 2021 after being hit by a drunk driver and has always wanted to dedicate victory to France, since they were young they have been glued to television so as not to miss a detail of everything that happened on the gala round.

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A first step on the yellow Tour board where Pogacar he said he would try. As in previous days, since losing the lead six days ago after the failure to Col du Granon, Tadej sought the tickle again in a solid jonas vingegaardbut Dane, who had to work hard, struggled with the same security he offers these days, saving the first of three balls of the match he had to embrace glory in Paris.

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It is true that this was the first battle of the Pyrenees, but it is also true that this 16th day can be considered the prelude to the two great chapters that will come after this great mountain system, whose white pages have not yet been written. One day showed three mountain passes for the crown, all of them in the low category, with the hardest to blow 27 kilometers from the finish line, where Luis Leon Sanchez he won in 2012, a victory that the Spanish did not take advantage of another day’s cycling to increase the drought of results.

The stage was very sir and mine, give and take, disputed again under the heat of justice and had a lot of open facades. The first of many leaks of 29 units, where the winner will emerge on the day, How are you, and from which the phenomenal Wout Van Aert to protect the need of his leader and racial leader, Vingegaardwho already have a luxury squire like the North American Sepp Kuss, broker based in the region of Berguedà (Catalonia) and that is always a guarantee when the road rises and looks to infinity.

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And at one of these exit ramps, 48 ​​kilometers from the finish line, at Pèguère Wallwith ramps up to 18% attacked Pogacar, certainly breaking up a group of celebrities that will eventually disperse. Tadej took a few meters and flew like a rocket to the right of the road, but Vingegaard it sticks to the rear wheel in a flick. He tied him to the solvency of the latter.

‘Handsome’ had the support of his most loyal squire, Motherbut even when Rafal left himself for his friend or before suffering a mechanical problem with his bike on the narrow road they couldn’t really put up with Vingegaard who endures and endures steadfastly, awaiting what may happen in the stages of tomorrow and the next day, marked by a more intense rigidity, in which Movistar needs to be reloaded. The war drums inside your bus should sound again.

This Tuesday they placed the North American pearl of jorgenson in the lead, which is in rapid descent towards Foix went to the ground when he tried to subtract the margin that Houle was leading on them, while in the back Enrique More He suffered not to lose too much time, after the development of the telephone broke away from the group of celebrities with up to three units, including the Balearic, Verona and Muhlberger. A bold, daring step that ended in nothing and was overturned by the race dynamics and strength of rivals, Mas even lost to tenth place on the podium and already fell into the top ten.

He was not only the victim of a busy and exciting day, Adam’s Yachts gave a square, similar to thomas pidcockfive o’clock Romain Bardet who returns to live a bitter time on the Tour, quite the opposite of his countryman David Gaudithat 5th after climbing three positions, or a rejuvenated Nairo Quintana which improves in two places and places 4th overall, knocking on the doors of a podium, where it remains to be seen whether it will undergo any relevant changes in the next 72 hours. The final battle has just begun.