Vingegaard, Pogacar’s long shadow on the Tour

Stages pass, the race gets stronger and for now no one can beat the leader jonas vingegaard. When Tadej Pogacar wearing yellow in the sixth stage of tours Looks like we’re going to have a new monologue France of the Slovenian star, winner of the last two editions of ‘Big Boucle’but suddenly on the difficult and emotional climb to Col de Granonat a stage that caressed the always decisive Galibierthe team Jumbo-Visma gave a good cycling lesson that their leader JOnas Vingegaard He finished the final climb, a climb where Pogacar paid a heavy price for his brave and crazy attitude of wanting to get out of all the attacks that the ‘wasp’ formation made him, to be completely stabbed. of the Dutch team.

Since then six episodes have passed and everything remains the same. a weak one U.A.E and a not very accurate one Pogacar they couldn’t find a way to get off the podium in a Vingegaard who has worn yellow more days this year than his great rival, six to five. The career route book tells us that there is a lot of material to cut, which is the most difficult of Pyreneestoday and tomorrow, but Vingegaarded He did not lose a single second of 2’22” in which he sat on the throne of the Tour on July 13.

And like that scorer who was once again with the goal, the Dane, as the stages pass, is seen as safer, more stable, before a more human and insecure version of a Pogacar that at this moment he could not find the key that allowed him to defeat a Vingegaard advancing with firm steps towards Paris.