This Tour de France is making us relive the great cycling of 30 years ago, when there were no earpieces, nor roller teams like the Sky of from mewho won and won Tours by crushing but without a show, avoiding taking risks.
What middle-aged fan doesn’t have memorable stages from the Big Three races recorded?
Who does not remember, for example, the tactics of the great Reynolds team that led to peter slim to dress in yellow in Alpe d’Huez, with Arroyo and Indurain unleashed, another July 14, 1988, a week before winning the race in Paris? And closer in time, the brutal attack of Alberto counter 50 km from the finish line in Fuente Dé, which gave him the final victory in that Vuelta a España? Or Froome’s attack in the 2018 Giro with 80 kilometers to go?
This Wednesday all the fans stood up before the exhibition of the Jumbo Visma team. The early attack primoz roglic announced dance -what a cyclist in the broad sense of the word- of leader and aspiring worker as one more to assault the UAE kingdom. A measured and courageous strategy, sensing that the weakened team of Pogacar would have difficulties and as it turned out, it would put him in the first line of fire.
Nothing is new, ‘kill him’ with attacks so that in the last port he cannot follow the applicant Vingegaard. But… how well executed and what a spectacle in front of the screen! And why not say it, what a desire to have a Spanish cyclist again starring in an assault on the yellow jersey of the Tour de France getting us up from the sofa… will they be Carlos Rodriguez either John Ayuso in a few years who will give us back the illusion? for now Henry He has regained his smile and Tour remains.
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The best of all is what remains, the feeling that Pogaçar has not handed over the throne and that this is no longer a “match by match”; or “stage by stage”, as it was for several years, but a spectacular attack by attack, although the expected climb to Alpe d’Huez has been a truce.
What Pyrenean stages await us, if the covid allows it and other expected actors join the party… Long live the Tour!