When Pogacar doesn’t win, Van Aert does in the couple’s Tour

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  • Four seconds of extra reward for the yellow jersey, with third place, in the Swiss stage marked by the explosive final climb to the Olympic Stadium in Lausanne.

Lausanne, to the street, the Tour arrives. You have to find a gap between the fences that protect the runners on the explosive climb to the Olympic stadium. Below, is Lake Leman, which cyclists do not see even out of amazement. The Swiss people scream, they receive the runners who have crossed the border without paying the vignette, others do not. There is a sprint, as certain as Tadej Pogacar is the leader of the race, but it is different from other days because the slope drowns the sprinters and those who aspire to something illustrious in the general classification just try not to cut themselves so as not to deliver more seconds than the four who achieves the yellow jersey thanks to the bonus for third place in the stage.

The Jumbo has been working all day, the one with three pearls in its squad: the Danish applicant jonas vingegaard, the older and uncertain performance of Slovenian, Primoz Roglic, and the (almost) perfect runner, Wout van Aert. And what happens in Lausanne? Well, as if it were a Tour prepared and arranged for two runners to become the protagonists of the race, Van Aert scores his second victory in the race to vindicate himself and expose something like that one day he wins when he doesn’t Pogacar. Of five stages disputed this week, the leader has won two and the Flemish star another two, one in yellow and the other in green. And the others to look at them.

In Lausannecertainly, stationed on the fences, one, two and even three rows, where the worst placed only listens to the enormous shouting, little is seen of how fast they climb to save a dull stage until the final four kilometers and marked by the doomed breakaway since it was formed.

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Pogacar never drops from third place, as if he had a hidden button to put the reactor on his legs. Van Aert He is a little further behind but always well placed to start at the right time and win the stage. And, in the middle, the Australian michael matthewswho can almost consider the second place achieved between these two monsters as a victory.

Van Aert he puts on the direct drive and it almost seems that Pogacar is stuck with that reactor button that he put to the test in Longwy and in the Superplanche to prevail in both stages. It will be because he has had a fright. He and forty more runners. ‘Radio Tour’ breaks out, the station that is giving the data of the race, which informs the directors who are behind the peloton so that they find out what is happening. “‘Shoot, shoot!'”, with a lot of runners fallen on the asphalt. And, among these, nothing less than Pogacarwho gets a good scare, like Nairo Quintana, like so many others. Those who have been saved from the incident breathe easy. It is not a question of leaving the Tour because of breaking a bone. But it is that you have to run at all times with the antenna on to avoid disappointment and to arrive safe and sound in Lausanne and be received as when the Cease He returned to Rome with the battle won.



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