
Tadej Pogačar sits staring into space as the furore around Jonas Vingegard refuses to leave the press room. The man with the yellow jersey is in demand, a few questions from Danish television need to be asked, which apparently couldn’t be done anywhere else.
UAE Team Emirates' Pogačar, for the second year running, will not finish the Tour de France in yellow, but instead in white, hardly a consolation prize for a man who has experienced the high of winning the whole thing. He sits, and just thanks to a cruel twist of fate and scheduling, has to watch his biggest rival, the man who has beaten him twice, face the adulation and rigmarole of winning.