2023-07-16 18:28:03
The Dutchman managed to clinch Belgian champion Wout Van Aert on the final climb, while the two Tour superstars, Vingegaard and Pogacar, continued their bluff act.
One Wout chases the other. The scenario seemed perfect for the most gleaming all-terrain vehicle of the Dutch formation Jumbo-Visma, Wout Van Aert. Embarked this Sunday, between Les Gets and Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, in a maousse breakaway, the Belgian manages to break away in the Col des Aravis, about forty kilometers from the finish, in the company of the Spaniard Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) and Dutchman Wout Poels (Bahrain-Victorious). A definite victory? No, the fault of Poels, who attacked it from the foot of the Amerands coast, a wall placed ten terminals from the finish. The former Sky, 35, will never be seen again.
On the side of the favorites, after their funny number of treading water in the final hectometres of the Col de Joux Plane on Saturday, the yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard and his runner-up Tadej Pogacar did it again. In the final ascent, the duo played the bluff, each refusing to completely reveal their game. Pogacar, whose attack was expected, even let his teammate Yates leave for a time, without it being known whether the movement was strategic, or the consequence of legs in relative breakdown. Vingegaard, for lack of a mirror, multiplies his glances back, worried. Is right. One kilometer from the summit, the Slovenian goes back on the offensive, but fails to take off his rival. Before the last day of rest, this Monday, the two stand in ten seconds.
In addition, this 15th stage was marked by many crashes. One, at the start of the stage, caused by a careless spectator. The other, later, which cost Latvian Krists Neilands his chance in the breakaway, after a missed bottle catch.
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