The elastic has snapped. Is that all she wrote? After four days of Jonas Vingegaard matching Tadej Pogačar at the Tour de France, using his team to attack in the crosswinds on stage 1 and revealing his newfound explosivity to only narrowly lose out to him on stages 2 and 4, the time trial on stage 5 saw the Dane's brightening light fade into darkness.
Following 33km of necessary pain out and back to Caen, and a shocking time loss for the Dane, the Tour's two protagonists warmed down just a metre apart, with Vingegaard the big loser of the day, and Pogačar putting to bed any question of weakness in the race of truth.
