Even if the Tour de France is done, Tadej Pogačar is still winning—analysis
Slovenian exhibits in Isola 2000 as payback for their failures against Hautacam and Col de la Loze.
Although Jonas Vingegaard felt his race was over at the top of the Cime de la Bonette, the Tour de France didn’t officially stop there. The estimates from stage 19 warned him he had little chance of winning in Nice, much like a defeated candidate on election night.
Instead of making a discreet phone call to Tadej Pogačar, Vingegaard made his concession via a brief radio message to his Visma-Lease a Bike companions, stating that he lacked the strength to carry out their pre-planned offensive strategy.
When the roles were reversed on the Col de le Loze a year ago, the occasion was captured on camera for future generations. Following Pogačar’s dismissal, his
Nearly instantly, the depressing radio message “I’m gone, I’m dead” was aired on television. We will probably have to wait until the next year for the Netflix installment due to Vingegaard’s exact words on Friday, but his actions here have already told us everything we needed to know.
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Matteo Jorgenson and Wilco Kelderman of Visma had easily defeated Vingegaard in the early break, but when the 2,800m Bonette summit passed without a Vingegaard attack, it became evident that the Dane had accepted the unavoidable reality of this race: Pogačar is just that good.
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