“We immediately understood that the UAEs did not want to play the win”will confirm the local Kevin Vauquelin, who was not coming back to having had his “mouth on a hot air balloon “. Pogacar therefore did not prevent Mathieu van der Poel from going to the group of fugitives. The Slovenian was determined to sell leadership to the Dutch to spare the protocol solicitations on arrival.
He should play the Vuelta
Except that the world champion almost missed his operation. Convinced that he would cross the line well after his best rival on the spring classics, he could not help showing that he was the strongest of the group of favorites by adjusting the sprint for 9th place. Van der Poel, eighth, had crossed the line for 1:29. In the grip of doubt, Mauro Gianetti, who confirmed Slovenian’s intention to participate in the Vuelta, released his calculator to make sure that his foal lost the leader’s tunic for … a second. Involuntarily, Pogacar had therefore been at a tubeless to stay at the top of the general classification.
I’m glad Mathieu took over the yellow jersey. “
“I had the rage after the chrono of the Dauphiné!”: Pogacar divided by five the gap per kilometer with Remco on the time trial in Caen
“We quickly decided that we were going to ride at our own pacewill say the man with a hundred victories. We knew that the Visma wanted me to keep the jersey to tire myself during post-race protocol ceremonies. So, they attacked at the beginning but it did not work … If I had remained leader, I would have accepted it, but it is true that the idea was not to keep it, so as not to spend energy to defend it tomorrow. We did what was needed, even if I finally granted myself a little fright in sprinting. I’m glad Mathieu took over the yellow jersey. “
Pogacar does not exclude, that said, already to resume power this Friday in Mûr-de-Bretagne.
