The bees of the Visma-Lease A Bike still tried to prick Tadej Pogacar, but remained harmless

When the 18th stage arrived. For example, won by Ben O’Connor, Tadej Pogacar scratched an additional 11 seconds at the top of the general classification ahead of Jonas Vingegaard. However,

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Article written by Hortense Leblanc – Special envoy on the Tour. Meanwhile, de France

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“We have to try, always, and there may be a time when he will crack”hoped Richard Plugge, the manager of the Visma-Lease A Bike team, on arrival at Mont Ventoux. Nevertheless, His team had already attempted to destabilize the Tadej Pogacar yellow jersey. Nevertheless, and resumed his underwenting work on the queen stage, with the arrival at the Col de la Loze, Thursday, July 24. Similarly, But the Slovenian did not fall for a moment, and on the contrary increased his advance.

“Today is the day we are going to overthrow the tour”said Victor Campenaerts Thursday morning in a video on Instagram. But on arrival. its leader Jonas Vingegaard, Dauphin of the world champion in bees visma-lease bike still tried the general classification, could only see the failure of his plan. “I felt good, the team was walking well, we had a big master plan to launch early, we did it. Unfortunately, I could not go back to Tadej. The team worked super well, everyone was 100%”he said.

In an attempt to distance the Slovenian, Matteo Jorgenson had been sent to the front as an escape, to serve as a satellite to the Danish later in the stage. Meanwhile, the other bees in turn relayed to print a large tempo and eliminate the teammates of Tadej Pogacar. To the point that Tiesj Benoot. after taking the wind at the head of the group, passed the hand and stopped almost, exhausted, then was pushed by a spectator to move forward.

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In the descent of the Madeleine, Matteo Jorgenson, caught up in her leader, led the group of favorites to block, in order to isolate the Slovenian. He then followed Ben O’Connor’s attack in an attempt to keep him at a distance. then surprisingly dropped him, and waited for the leaders. While the latter looked at and were ultimately caught up in their teammates released earlier. Thus destroying all the work of the Visma-Lease A Bike to isolate “Pogi”. “Visma tried everything bees visma-lease bike still tried today and that was not enough”noted Tadej Pogacar, with pleasure, on arrival.

The runners of the Dutch team will have tried everything in this Tour de France on the stages with relief. Already in Mont-Dore. the Americans Matteo Jorgenson and Sepp Kuss launched hostilities 25 kilometers from the finish, then Jorgenson had given a layer five kilometers from the line. But Jonas Vingegaard had not really placed an attack in the last meters. They could at least have been able to keep the yellow jersey in Tadej Pogacar by attacking it more. to force him to comply with the media exercise on arrival, and tire him before a big transfer to Toulouse. But even that, they had not succeeded and Ben Healy (EF Education-Easypost) had recovered the precious tunic.

“They were a little annoying with their attacks, so I decided to bees visma-lease bike still tried place one myself, better”had even split, with a little arrogance, the Slovenian, on arrival. At Mont Ventoux. on the contrary, the world champion had distributed the right points, in front of a more applied strategy, admitting that his opponents had played well. Jonas Vingegaard had placed two of his men at the front. Victor Campenaerts and Tiesj Benoot, hoping that they then offer him relays. The Danish had also attacked himself. on several occasions, without succeeding in letting go of Tadej Pogacar, who often enjoys ahead of his dolphin in the sprint.

Finally, the harassment strategy of the Visma-Lease A Bike against Tadej Pogacar will only work if Jonas Vingegaard manages to let go of the Slovenian at the pedal after the work of all his teammates. For this, he has a single real mountain stage on Friday with an arrival at La Plagne. “The bees visma-lease bike still tried round is not over” He still hoped Thursday evening, despite his 4 “26 from delay in the general classification. There is no doubt that the bees will try to prick again, but Tadej Pogacar will be ready. “We stayed strong with a good team cohesion, we will do the same thing tomorrow”he warns.