Cycling – Tour de France
Tour de France: Vingegaard’s bluff is revealed
Published on July 1, 2024 at 8:35 a.m.
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Nobody expected to see Jonas Vingegaard at such a level. During Tadej Pogacar’s attack during this second stage of the Tour de France this Sunday, the Danish rider jumped on the wheel of his Slovenian competitor. The Frenchman of the UAE Team Emirates, Pavel Sivakov is not surprised by the defending champion.
Tadej Pogacar is one of the big winners of this second stage with Kévin Vauquelin. The Slovenian rider managed to break away and gain enough distance on Romain Bardet to pocket the yellow jersey. But danger lurks. Richard Carapaz, Remco Evenepoel et Jonas Vingegaard are at the same time. The title holder seems to be in good shape, three months after his heavy fall at Tour of the Basque Country.
“They really bluffed”
French runner of the UAE Team Emirates, Pavel Sivakov considers that thea Team Jumbo Visma hid his game well before the start of the Tour de France. « They really bluffed by saying that he wasn’t ready, but we didn’t really believe it either, we knew that if they lined up for the Tour, it was to play for the win. he confided in remarks reported by Cyclism -.
Start of Pogacar’s reign?
Pogacar is also not surprised by the level of Vingegaard. « We preferred to go slowly. In the final circuit I felt very good and the pace was already very high the first time on the San Luca climb because of the work of the Visma team. Then the second time we decided to try and attack to test myself a bit. Jonas Vingegaard quickly jumped on board. I’m not surprised by his level. He took over a bit, but we didn’t manage to widen the gap on Remco and Richard, they managed to come back at the end » he confided.
