Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar are both excellent bike riders, two of the best of all time, arguably. The latter might have the 100 career wins, the World Championships, the Monuments, the five Grand Tour victories, but the former is the only rider to have comprehensively beaten him, twice at the Tour de France, in fact.
Whether the pair like it or not, they are, to an extent, defined by their rivalry with each other, like Rafal Nadal and Roger Federer, or George Smiley and Karla, or in cycling, Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali. It's hard to escape the duel. In the 17 second places Vingegaard has taken at the Tour – 14 stages, and three overall – the Visma-Lease a Bike has been pipped by his UAE Team Emirates-XRG rival 15 times.
