2023-07-06 23:23:14
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Cauterets
Updated Thursday, July 6, 2023 – 23:23
The Slovenian, cold-blooded before the tactical demonstration of the Jumbo and the attacks of Vingegaard, resisted in the Tourmalet and signed the final three stratospheric kilometers in Cauterets. “I thought I was going to let go again”
Vingegaard and Pogacar, during the sixth stage. MARTIN DIVISEKEFEClasications As is the Tour
Between the mental and the irrational, between intelligence and courage. How not to feel overwhelmed when the Jumbo wasps isolate and corner you? How to stay calm at the limit of strength with all the doubts of the day before on your shoulders as a champion? Ah, on the ramps of the Tourmalet, Tadej Pogacar, against the ropes, escaped his fate. And she did it without giving up his usual style. Ah, in that measured attack from the morning on the bus of the best team in the world, Jonas Vingegaard He was not able to finish off the same rival who, after so long, was going to be able to defeat him again in the Tour. He thought he was going to let me go again. When Jumbo-Visma began to shoot in the Tourmalet, he thought: ‘If the same thing happens yesterday, we can already pack our bags and go home’. Luckily, I had good legs, confessed a happy Pogacar again, victory dedicated to her Urska Zigarthis girlfriend fell in the Giro, which worried him so much on Wednesday in Laruns.
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Pogacar revives in Cauterets and turns the Tour upside down
Writing: LUCAS SEZ-BRAVO (Special Envoy)CauteretsPogacar revives in Cauterets and turns the Tour upside down
The last time the Slovenian led Vingegaard by more than 25 seconds in a major stage of the Tour was two years ago in the Alps, final in Tignes. The last edition was for him an exercise in pure frustration until the final defeat. The key on Thursday was in the Tourmalet, the second port of the day, in not losing the wheel or calm, in resisting. But the blow, the fireworks, came on the Cauterets-Cambasque plateau -have I ever been here? joked the euphoric winner-, in the last three kilometers in which Pogacar flew at 27.9 per hour (much faster than the 26.6 of his rival, only the fifth best; third in that section was a carlos rodriguez to dream), in which I did not hesitate to try my luck, mixing head and heart, paying attention to the advice from the UAE car; if it is possible to think at those limits of agony.
From the radio they repeated to me ‘smart’, to wait a bit. I think I attacked at the right time, if I had done it sooner I might have exploded. You need to have the balls to do it until the end, pronounced a Tadej who, at 24 years old, already has 10 partial victories in the Tour: I have jokingly said to Cavendish (34): ‘I’m coming for you’. only Francois Faber15 stages from 1908 to 1911, surpasses him in precocity.
Pogacar recovers sensations and his rebellious child’s smile returns. She wouldn’t call it revenge, but I know the feeling of winning is sweet. It has been a great relief. Capable of gesturing to the camera, of joking with his defeated friend Jai Hindley in full effort, of shaking his battered wrist over and over again in a descent at more than 100 per hour. But neither does Vingegaard look sad, who leaves the Pyrenees already in yellow, 11 months and 12 days later. Aware of what had happened, of the forces expended in the second port of the day, of the threatening resurrection of his rival. We have tried it on the Tourmalet, but he has resisted. That has cost us a lot of energy that would have come in handy in the end. My intention was to distance him there, I had to Van Aert ahead to set the pace on the flat. It would have been perfect to leave him, but he had better legs than yesterday, he admitted, everyone aware that strategy, however perfect it may seem, doesn’t always work. Not even the Jumbo one.
Such was the waste without a prize on the Tourmalet, that Vingegaard pulverized the record for the ascent, according to NTT data. He completed the 17km in 45:11, more than two minutes better than David Gaudu in 2021 (47:35).
Pogacar, tras ganar la etapa en Cauterets.ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULATAFP
Until Sunday at least (final at the Puy de Dme), calm returns to the Tour. Time to lick wounds, to recapitulate. Because it’s only a matter of two, torn to pieces Jai Hindley after his adventure on Wednesday. What can I say, he had a peak day going up and down in the yellow jersey and doing some mythical climbs. To be honest, they beat me up, but I really enjoyed it, confessed the Australian from Bora, already third.
Because everything else left by the Pyrenees that yesterday had the presence of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, were promises of the chapters to be written by these two geniuses. And they both know that even Paris will be a war. Jonas: I think we are going to have an exciting Tour. Tadej: This Tour is going to be a fight to the end.
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