Vingegaard’s attack on the Marie Blanque was the beginning of the end for Pogacar
Until Marie Blanque, the Tour de France had had Pogacar ahead of Vingegaard.
After Marie Blanque, the Danish would no longer be surpassed by the Slovenian.
I admit we didn’t see it coming.
A stage at a dizzying pace, with Bora unleashed, taking things to the limit, cooking up a surprise.
Jay Hindley surrounded himself with his team to pursue what many might consider crazy, but which is often the way to get into the game, especially when competing against giants like Pogacar and Vingegaard.
With the broth generated by Bora, what came from behind was cooked.
This is how we told it that afternoon, still warmed by the excellent stage we had just enjoyed.
In any case, the attack, only one, from Vingegaard to Pogacar at the Marie Blanque has been so devastating that the perplexed faces will have been like a cramp among the thousands of fans who at some point have split the Dane.
He has beaten him by hand, as in the Granon and Hautacam and raising that attack in the Ventoux, a couple of Tours ago, in the prelude to what we are seeing.
So we thought, what need does Pogacar have to follow him, and perhaps it was like that then, but you see what has happened since then.
Vingegaard has been sadly, meanly and opportunistically disparaged, for Paris-Nice, for Pogacar’s repeated victories, but Jonas had a plan and look what is turning out.
Vingegaard didn’t get muchbut in Lauruns, where Pogacar had debuted his record in the Tour three years before, the balance already weighed in favor of the Dane.
After several Pogacar attacks in Euskadi, Vingegaard’s blow at Marie Blanque improved his rival’s entire set of offensives.
It is what it is, talking on the road, the Dane had been underestimated during the year, but in the Tour he was better and was beginning to show it.
It would take half a Tour for the final blows, the time trial in particular, but the Jumbo was already ahead, and not even the new yellow rider that day, Jay Hindley, was in a position to worry him.
2023-12-24 12:29:53
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