Pogacar won in Peyragudes against a Vingegaard that remains difficult

bitter victory of Tadej Pogacar sa the 17th stage of the Tour de France at the end of Peyragudes (1st)before the one jonas vingegaard which continues to be elusive and doesn’t offer any signs of weakness. This is the second attack of Pyrenees a great opportunity for the Slovenian to shake with all his might the throne of Vingegaard nasa tour, and not because he did it, but even though he left every last strength of his effort here, he was only able to achieve the smallest prize, the victory on the stage, the third in this edition of the Tour and his 43 because he is a professional cyclist.

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This guy is not the great version of the runner that we are used to by Pogacar, who also finds a response Vingegaardsecond last year on the podium of Paris and this year he will be with the Slovenian, at least for now.

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This second attack in the Pyrenees framed a perfect setting for a real battle to be experienced, for Pogacar to show his best version, but in the end he was only able to scratch the leader by four seconds , now 2’18” behind a Jonas Vingeggard who with each passing day is closer to making history and becoming the second rider to win the Tour de France, after the first victory of Bjarne Riss in 1996.

And it was that Pogacar He didn’t have the best awakening when they told him that his great squire, his best ally in the high mountains, Rafal Makka, did not start due to a muscle tear he sustained in yesterday’s incident where his chain broke. UAE and Pogacar they stayed in the square, before a Jumbo-Visma who has a leader Vingegaard and who continues to surf the waves of the Tour.

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Ahead, some first 50 flat kilometers where the team of Arab Emirates warmed up the engine, fresh from the start of the first mountainous difficulty of the day, Col d’Aspin (1st) Pinot and Lutsenko They showed courage and continued, without too much of a margin at any time, against a Jumbo-Visma that wanted to control the stage but would be overtaken by its great rival, the UAE, with an excellent Brandon McNulty which was removed for the sake of its leader, Pogacar.

The race was progressing at full speed, on a day where only 144 runners started and offered 3,364 meters of elevation gain. The drums of war sound loudly on the rise of Col du Val Louron Azet (1st), where the rhythm of U.A.E this caused Jumbo casualties, until Vingegaard was left with Pogacar. The heads-up between the best two was served up, as a great battle for the podium broke out, with the best standing at the end of the day being the Welshman Geraint Thomas that, barring a debacle, the podium is assured. One day when again Enrique More he did not offer his best version, he fell from the best 27 kilometers from the finish line, although he knew how to suffer to enter 3’44” behind Pogacarto see his efforts rewarded with a re-entry into the top ten.

Pogacar wanted to leave Vingegaard in the last meters of Louron, but Vingegaard stuck to his wheel and seeing that he had not reached his goal, he waited for McNulty to help him. The three left the lead of the race heading into the final climb to Peyragudes8 kilometers at 7.8% with three kilometers at 16% where the most cannibalistic version of Pogacar is expected.

Vingegaard challenged Pogacar

Kilometers pass and this fatal attack does not happen, until the endless final stretch is reached, which never ends and where the difficulty is at its highest. Vingegaard punished Pogacar’s self-esteem and caught up with him, putting himself at the wheel of McNulty. Even Vingegaard dares to challenge Pogacar, who, pulling caste and looking for energy where there is none, in a new painful ending, as he did in La Planches des Belles Filles, manages to defeat Vingegaard in a massive effort not to achieve the goal. desired, pearl that at least allowed him to continue adding victories to the Tour.

But Pogacar is a champion and a champion never buries the hatchet. This Thursday in the most difficult stage of the Pyrenees, with finish in Hautacam of the special category, it will fire its last cartridge, we will see if this time, for the third time, it reaches its goal. Vingegaard sighed.