Nor you knew Jonas Vingegaard would reach Tour of France and here it is. Alive and kicking. The cyclist who ‘left in one’ the reign of Tadej Pogacar in the Grande Boucle, champion in 2022 and 2023, he arrived on time and looks strong in the early stages of the race.
Due to the hardness of its fell just over two months ago in the Vuelta País Vasco (clavicle fracture, several ribs, lung contusion and pneumothorax) There were many doubts about the Danish leader of Jumbo Visma and we are clearing them up even though he hasn’t raced since then. Spoiler: He is already the favorite to win the race.
Neither Tadej Pogacar (it will be the first time that emn dop) and no one of his super UAE (Adam Yates, Joao Almeida, Juan Ayuso, Marc Soler…) Jonas Vingegaard has been diagnosed in the first two stages of a Tour de France that has started with sawtooth profiles. What’s more, it was the Jumbo Visma that this Sunday made everyone firm on the last climb of the day. Order from the Dane, for sure.
I will not be the one to accuse Pogaçar of being a cyclist who does not attackthat is nonsense because it advocates the opposite, but the reality is that the Giro 2024 champion He has not proven what everyone expected him to prove, to his greatest rival to arrive in yellow in Paris.
This Monday sprint and Tuesday Galibierfirst mountain stage of a Tour, I insist, spectacularly designed for my taste, who is the one who will tell us how it is Jonas Vingegaard. He will also tell us how Pogaçar is.that everything takes its toll and even more so the great deeds that this season has led to, from which we cannot ask for much more.
What is clear is that the Tour is a matter of two. Tadej Pogacar o Jonas VingegaardLike the last two years, the winner of each edition comes out of that duo. Primoz Roglic left Jumbo Visma to take the lead of Bora Red Bull but the change did not give him wings.
Today, at the first opportunity, he gave in along with Carlos Rodriguezwho could not even react to a short change of pace from Pogaçar to which of course Vingegaard was very attentive. The question is whether it was an oversight… or simply that they are much less strong than Jonas and Tadej.
Remco Evenepoel He did exhibit strength that Primoz or Carlos did not show, he reacted better to the Slovenian’s attack along with Richard Carpaz, and caught up with Pogacar and Vingegaard in the final stretch. As I said, spectacular display of strength from a 24-year-old kid who is racing his first Tour de France.
Will it be the third in contention or is it worth more? We do not forget that he is the leader of a team that rarely had the general classification as its goal but that has the #Landism On your part. Mikel Landa as a gregarious member of a Tour General, We are not prepared for what we are going to see in the Galibier.
