Before the rest day, Tadej Pogacar loses the yellow jersey to Ben Healy. The defending champion comes like this because he thus gives his battered team a little rest.
Tadej Pogacar had joined a windbreak of his team, which covered the yellow jersey, only the yellow pants still looked out. The Maillot Jaune no longer belonged to him, shortly after the end of the 10th stage of the Tour de France in Le Mont Dore.
Irish Ben Healy Instead, in the central massif that Leaderjersey The tour of the France stripped over and takes it into the first day of rest of the tour in Toulouse. Healy could hardly believe his luck, spoke of one “Fairy tale”in which he was now the main actor.
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Pogacar isolated from his team
But Pogacar also seemed anything but unhappy when he drove towards the valley with a trill whistle around his neck to be able to draw attention to himself. “Yes, I’m happy. The team was perfect, fantastic”he called the journalist jogging next to him and then disappeared.
However, that was a little flunker. Yes, his team had worked hard again when a large group of outliers had formed, which Healy had belonged to, just like the later stage winner Simon Yates. But in the end Pogacar had been isolated from his teammates.
Vingegaard’s team puts UAE under pressure
The UAE team is weakened in the day off. The Portuguese Joao AlmeidaLast year’s fourth of the tour and Pogacar’s most important mountain helper, has not been there since the 9th stage due to a break. With the sick Frenchman Pavel Sivakov, an important domestics fell back early on the first mountain stage of the tour.
In the central massif, Pogacar was able to regulate things in the usual manner. Although the team of Jonas Vingegaardhis main competitor in the fight for yellow, had tried to rob the Slovenian energy, in which they attacked him mutually until there was no teammate nearby.
Pogacar tire with an offensive driving style- that was Vingegaard’s team’s strategyLease a bike In the first days of this tour. However, the question is how far this actually succeeded. “We attacked to exert a little pressure”said a visibly satisfied Vingegaard after the stage.
Vingegaard has to come on the offensive
The Dane would also have liked to see Pogacar in yellow because the award ceremony at the end of the day also means a good hour less regeneration. But Pogacar thwarted this plan when he did not make any institutions, the 29 seconds, which he finally lacked on Healy, still to make up for it.
Previously, the defending champion had countered an attack by the German cyclist Florian Lipowitz from the favorite group so explosively that only Vingegaard could follow. The Danes had not succeeded in doing this on the Dauphiné Tour a few weeks before the tour. “This shows that I am obviously at a better level”said Vingegaard.
But that alone will not be enough, because Vingegaard will have to come on the offensive, at the latest when it goes to the Pyrenees at the end of the week. “Of course I have to lose time at some point”said Vingegaard. Because after his weak time trial on the fifth stage, his gap to Pogacar in the overall ranking is well over a minute.
Grischa Niermann, the sporting director of Vingegaards Equipe, was asked whether he had recognized a weakness at UAE or Pogacar. “Not at Tadej”was the meaningful answer. The Slovenen team is to be cracked, he himself was not. And the responsibility associated with the yellow jersey is also going on for the time being.