Only one man dressed in yellow can survive the fierce duel of the Pyrenees sun. Everything is ready to be painted in the best colors of the Tour de France, the moats overflowing with people, the overflowing passion and much, much warmth, another phenomenon that can be decisive. Years passed between the leader and a jaundiced runner who didn’t give up and didn’t surrender.
This Monday, he threatened, “I’ll attack as best I can”, with big star Tadej Pogacar, the cyclist who was given the title as the only open contender for victory before the start, the cyclist who overrun first week and beat the first week. It was a grave mistake when someone he forgot to eat or drink at Granon should pave the way for Jonas Vingegaard to victory in Paris.
Inside last 33 years nothing seen. time has passed Miguel IndurainCrossing tours, bloody doping, Lance Armstrong going nowhere, Alberto Contador’s lands, Chris Froome…but that’s how the person who always started out as the favorite of the yellow jersey, with the exception of one accident, no disqualifications, came to Paris.
You have to go back to what is considered the best Tour de France in the last 40 years to find the intense duel between Greg Lemon Y Laurent FignonHe lived in 1989 after Pedro Delgado’s disappearance in the Luxembourg prologue and, far from capitulating, he fought like a wild boar to repeat the previous year’s victory. Unforgettable Segovian’s big stage super bags, with the monuments of the Pyrenees, including the Tourmalet, are not in the race scenario this year. ran away with Robert Millertoday took three minutes from the British press’s Tour special representative Philippa York and all.
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i wore it for a few days lemon yellow and others Fignonhe lost the race in his homeland Paris on the last day and by only 8 seconds. Champs ElyseeThis is the case that a Frenchman will never again be programmed to leave an entire country crying and speechless.
Full, parrotIn the face of incoming attacks, it contributes to what Vingegaard thinks he must do to win the Tour. pogacar It is announced over a loudspeaker in Carcassonne. “You have to go full throttle and if you can’t follow Tadej Let go and try to give up for a few seconds. He has 2.22 minutes of cushioning to manage.”
Péguère’s wall
The festival kicks off this Tuesday with the longest yet weakest of the three Pyrenean stages. No high end but peguere wall, in short, this snatches, where in 2012 more than 30 cyclists placed nails in hooliganism so that they could be drilled. If he attacks Pogacar, he needs to make an individual time trial of 27 kilometers from Foix. Everything is more classic on Wednesday and a hard-to-crack nut on Thursday. i’m hautaAbove the skies of Lourdes.
“It should go on the Pogacar wheel until the yellow jersey pops,” says Pedro Delgado.
“False vingegaard would be trying to spend more time pogacarThe player who must try to isolate the yellow jersey to attack from the start of the last climb in the last two stages of the Pyrenees. Slovenian cyclist is still my favourite, but vingegaard Even if he’s not having a bad day, it will be very difficult to win the Tour again. So far the Danish has shown that he has the explosive and can always defuse it. pogacar without visible problems”. Another Tour winner put it this way, Oscar Pereiro“Vingegaard can afford to lose a few seconds at each stage,” adds the former Galician cyclist, winner of the 2006 edition. “But pogacar reduce the debuff to at least 40 seconds with vingegaard “If he wants to win Saturday’s final 40km time trial,” he says. ThinTVE commentator today.
“Vingegaard’s mistake would have been to try to spend more time with his opponent,” adds Óscar Pereiro.
“I dare not hand either of them the eventual winners. What I am sure of is that there will be a great duel in the Pyrenees,” says Enric Mas, a luxury watcher at the two stars’ encounter. He hopes to profit from a race reaching the Lap and Pyrenean stage—week three, with everyone more tired, as dreadful as running on foot with a stone in their shoes—with the Jumbo and the UEA without enough troops to control it. Defend the maximum against their leader, and at the same time be aware that someone a few minutes away is not taking advantage of the troubled waters by slipping into an uncontrollable escape.
Make a game!
pogacar This Monday, he admitted that he already knew what had happened to him in Granon. Supply bag found containing unused gels and barrels. He threw it away, believing that he had been vaccinated against the bird. sepp kuss almost the only protector vingegaard Wout van Aert is worth it all though. And it doesn’t scale that badly. pogacar There’s often a Catalan (Marc Soler) and a Polish (Rafal Majka) to watch his back in a face-to-face duel for a garment only one can wear in Paris. Make a game!