The victory that Jonas Vingegaard will achieve this Sunday in Paris will be even greater because it will be done against an extraordinary, unrepeatable runner, who can fail one day, and even do it in a terrible way, but who never gives up, from February to October, or from some Alps that knocked him down to some Vosges where he recovered his smile. Tadej Pogacar is a breath of fresh air, crystal clear water, a runner who must be loved without looking at where he was born, because his is the kingdom of cycling, even though the emperor of the Tour has the last name vingegaard.
“Super! & rdquor ;, his Polish companion yelled at him, Rafal Majkato pogacar when he reached the finish line of Le Markstein, a winter resort where Alpine and Nordic skiing are combined. Because he had won, because he had been that explosive runner who had not allowed Vingegaard, as the Danish star wanted, to sign up for the last mountain stage. He could not with the final sprint of pogacar, the one that had attacked with 5.5 kilometers to go from the top of Platzerwasel, ports of the Vosges with a German name, testimony of an Alsace that remembers its German past.
🏆🇸🇮 @TamauPogi wins stage 20!
🏆🇸🇮 @TamauPogi report the stage 20 au Markstein !#TDF2023 pic.twitter.com/9t4iBQmElJ
—Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 22, 2023
Won pogacar to demonstrate that if one day he dies on his bicycle, the next he is resurrected with his boots on, in a yellow non-conformist jersey, an Austrian named Felix Gallwinner in Courchevel, an admirable rider with a great future but who deprived yesterday of the image that all the Tour photographers were looking for, the leader and his great adversary arriving together, first and second, to meet again a day later on the podium on the Champs-Élysées, the finale of an intense French round until the last week but which was sentenced to five stages to finish.
Fall of Carlos Rodriguez
It was not the end of the Tour that Carlos Rodríguez would have wanted, either, who crossed the penultimate finish line with a bloody face, testimony to the fall suffered in the famous Ballon d’Alsace, the first mountain climbed in the history of the race, in no less than 1905. With combat injuries it was difficult for him to respond to the offensive of two brothers, Adam and Simon Yates, who despite running on different teams are twins and therefore what one does, the other does. Fighting a Yates was still a task that Carlos I could assume, but against two it sounded impossible.
⏪ He said he’d win, and he’s only gone and done it! @TamauPogi claims the penultimate stage after a very fast final KM ⤵️
⏪ Il avait dit qu’il gagnerait, et il l’a fait ! @TamauPogi remporte l’avant-dernière étape après un dernier KM très rapide ⤵️#TDF2023 pic.twitter.com/H5hqzaRZ2s
—Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 22, 2023
It came as no surprise that the British couple agreed to have simon displace Rodríguez from fourth place overall, although, really, it doesn’t matter if the Granada-born runner arrives in Paris fourth or fifth this Sunday, because the essence was in the quality he showed in his alpine debut until the test became very long, possibly due to his inexperience, although this Saturday it would not have gone bad for his best companion, tom pidcock, I would have been a little more aware of him instead of getting involved in a getaway that was going nowhere. “My radius broke going down and I fell, but next year I will return to the race stronger & rdquor ;.
attack of the day
Everyone knew that the fugue would be eaten like a piece of Iberian ham when pogacar take action, because his team never allowed escapees to enjoy health, not even thibaut pinot, the French idol, who wanted to say goodbye to the Tour, before hanging up his bike at the end of the year, with an impossible victory. You had to see how people went crazy when Pinot passed by him, on the run, but knowing that he had little to do to conquer the stage.
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pogacar he was on the podium twice, as he will do this Sunday in Paris. In the Vosges for having won the stage and as leader of the under-25s. On the Champs-Élysées as second overall and again as the best youngster ahead of Rodríguez. At least, the Andalusian, next year, will have no rival to wear the white jersey because pogacar He will already be ‘of legal age’. It’s always a relief. “I felt myself again after suffering so many days. I wanted to win alone, but Jonas wouldn’t let me go.” Vingegaard did not want to miss the party before this Sunday Paris surrenders to his cycling art.