the dane Jonas Vingegaard, who is gearing up to win his first Tour de France, made sure he wouldn’t take any risks in Saturday’s time trial, although he indicated he would give it his all.
“I always give my best, I hope to make a good time, but I will not take the maximum risk in the corners. I will do my best without taking risk, the objective is to take the yellow jersey to Paris,” he said .
Vingegaard assured that his partner Wvan Aert show he is “one of the favourites” to sign up for the time trial: “he is in good shape, he is one of the best time trialists in the world, he has options to win tomorrow”.
This will be the third victory for the Belgian and the sixth for Jumbo: “It has been an incredible Tour, we have many jerseys, the yellow, the mountain, the green. As well as stage victories, we hope I’m sure tomorrow we’ll get another one.”
Vingegaard indicated that he is not afraid of losing the yellow jersey in the final test, as his teammate did in 2020 primoz roglicwho left the rental minute he had with Tadej Pogacar La Planche des Belles Filles.
The Dane revealed that he followed that stage in a hospital, because he was attending the birth of his daughter.
“The team doesn’t talk much about it, for me it’s not a reference. The important thing tomorrow is that we give everything to keep the yellow jersey,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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