It's a Jonas Vingegaard With the mine of the bad day that appeared in front of the media this Wednesday evening, after the 5th stage of the Tour de France. However, everything seemed to be going well since the Grand Dpéart de Lille, the Danish being playing with equal Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) on punchy land more favorable to his Slovenian rival, to whom he had so far conceded only 8 seconds of bonus. A trifle that suggested that the leader of Visma | Lease a Bike was in great shape, and many of them think that he could compete with the world champion this Wednesday on the 33 km time trial in Caen, especially after the slap taken by the latter a month ago on the CLM of Dauphiné criterium. But to everyone's surprise, it is even completely the opposite that happened, Awesome making a very average or even bad time for its standards: 13th to 1'21 ” Remco Evenepoeland at 1'05 ” Pogacar !
Video – Jonas Vingegaard slightly disappointed after Caen's time
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“I still think we can win the Tour”
A real blow that relegates him to 1'13 “of the new yellow jersey and that the Danish and the clan of the bees had a hard time explaining after the arrival.”It's a bad day, I didn't have legs. There is nothing more to say“, Simply analyzes Awesome. “I waste time, my legs were just not very good, so the result corresponds to these sensations. I fought with my bike and my legs today. Fortunately, the Tour de France is long, I still believe in me and in our plan, and I still believe that we can win the Tour. Yes, I'm a little surprised at my legs, but sometimes it's the race. The gap? It is about a minute, obviously it seems a lot, but in recent years, the tour has been won by a little more than that …“, he concluded with the obvious need to reassure himself after this first round lost in front of Tadej Pogacar.
