Paris wanted to say goodbye to the Tour with a Gray day and with a threatening rain, perhaps as a tribute to Jonas Vingegaard so that he would feel in his soulful Denmark, as if wanting to create the appropriate climate for a runner who already marks an era, who rolls along the French roads as if they were the streets of his fishing village, in whose market he worked before becoming a star, and in that complete cyclist who no longer only looks at the Tour, but also seeks new challenges. First, run the tour next month.
They say that Vingegaard is more prudent than Tadej Pogacar -more extroverted-, the cyclist with the smile, who captivates as much as his legs, and perhaps for this reason he deprives the Danish star of greater affection from the people. And because many times the fan is more attached to the loser than to the winner, as happened to Raymond Poulidor, always defeated by Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx.
The Jumbo example
However, 2023 has been the Tour de Vingegaard and the French round of the best squad in the world, Jumbo, “the team that had a plan for me from day one”; without a doubt, the perfect team, the one that won the Giro in May with Primoz Roglic and the one that wants to conquer the big three this year. that’s why he leaves Vingegaard on the Tour to collaborate in this way with his Slovenian partner with the intention that one of the two arrives dressed in red on the streets of Madrid.
It represents a change in the way of running for the Danish cyclist, who has been pointed out as being more conformist than Pogacar, but the only thing that sets him apart is that he competes less and that, certainly, while the Slovenian phenomenon triumphed everywhere, he focused more on the Tour; More training than competition. But Vingegaard won the O Gran Camiño in February; in April the Itzulia and in June the Critérium del Dauphiné. In other words, nothing remains up in the air, not even the decision to run the Vuelta now, which has not been improvised.
Pedro Delgado’s opinion
“Vingegaard It is a product of the Jumbo’s technification. But I think that Pogacar He is at the same level and if the Slovenian cyclist has not performed as expected, it is because of the fall he had in Liège, in April. Vingegaard is lucky, above all, to ride in a team where the season is carefully prepared”, says Pedro Delgado, winner of the 1988 Tour.
Óscar Pereiro’s analysis
He is a much more calculating cyclist than Pogacar. For this reason, he did not attack his Slovenian rival, much more explosive, giving him air, but few seconds in the last stage of the Pyrenees, and in the Puy de Dôme, because VingegaardAccording to his team, he knew that the fate of the Tour would be at stake in the only scheduled time trial. “You could compare them to Cristiano Ronaldo y Messi; one likes to show off and the other has always been to the point. Pogacar runs with his heart and Vingegaard with his head”, he says Oscar Pereirowinner of the 2006 Tour. And now the head tells the Tour winner that he should go to the Vuelta, because last year he lost concentration after winning the yellow jersey and then it was difficult for him to return to the competition.
The phrase of Fernando Escartín
“The Tour would have changed if Pogacar didn’t crash in Liège, but I also think that the Slovenian cyclist should ride all season more focused on preparing for the French round,” he warns. Fernando Escartinthird in the 1999 Tour.
However, next year there will be a novelty between Florence and Nice, the start and end of the 2024 Tour. Pogacar, after winning the penultimate stage. “Next year we will not be alone because more young people will come.” He was referring to Remco Evenepoel -what a great duel is expected between Vingegaard and the last winner of the Vuelta in the Spanish round-. “Both should keep in mind that next year will come Evenepoel to the Tour so they will have to be aware of what he is going to do, especially if the organization of the Tour decides to put a longer time trial to benefit the Belgian cyclist”, he affirms Delgado.
Joseba Beloki’s assessment
“Vingegaard has had a much more coupled team than Pogacar to win the Tour, but in the previous mountain stages, before he collapsed, it was already seen that the Slovenian rider was not pedaling as he liked”, he comments Joseba Belokithree times podium in Paris.
Paris, cloudy, surrendered to the consistency of Vingegaard, happy on the podium, in his second victory, already thinking about the Vuelta after ending a dream Tour for him and which ended with the Belgian’s victory Jordan Meeus on the Champs Elysees.
2023-07-23 17:44:34
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