Jonas Vingegaard was already back aboard his bike and conducting his warm-down during his flash interview at Le Lioran, but he couldn’t pretend that this had been just another day among many at the sharp end of the Tour de France. This was a moment apart.
The Dane has won this race twice, but surely nothing he has experienced at the Tour to date – and he has experienced much, from a home Grand Départ to his first yellow jersey atop the Col du Granon – could have inspired a riot of emotions quite like this one.
