If Jonas Vingegaard does indeed lose this Tour de France, and current projections suggest he will, then he’ll have no problem identifying the difference between him and Tadej Pogačar in the subsequent post-race analysis: the Slovenian’s blistering attacks
On Saturday, above the clouds on Pla d’Adet in the Pyrenees, Pogačar delivered one of his customary stinging jolts from the pack, or, to quote Remco Evenepoel from stage two, one of his “ticking time bombs”. It was the fifth stage out of 14 that the UAE Team Emirates rider has lit the fuse on his grenade, and this time he had greater success than in his previous attempts, putting 39 seconds into Visma-Lease a Bike’s Vingegaard and 1:10 into Soudal Quick-Step’s Evenepoel to give him a lead of 1:57 at the top of the general classification.
