Jonas Vingegaard (Team visma | lease a bike) could not do anything to distance Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates). Offensive from the first stage of Dauphiné criteriumthe Danish attacked as soon as the field was favorable to him, including during the last stage this Sunday, without being able to let go of his best adversary. When the 8th stage arrived, the double winner of the Tour de Francemust be satisfied with second place in the general classification, beaten by the world champion when two arrivals at the top of the Alpine event. Reassuring or disturbing signals approaching the Tour de France ?
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“I have to work a bit”
Beaten on the two difficult arrivals of this Dauphiné criterium, Jonas Vingegaard does not seem shot down and is already fully concentrated on the Tour de France and its preparation for this: “We focus only on ourselves. We focus on us to be as good as possible on the Tour and we do it every time, no matter what is going on. I talked with Tadej, once we were down and there was a break and we discussed on if we had to go there or not, but we decided not to go.
The Danish admits still having work to reach 100% hard Tour de France But for the moment, not the worried look: “I have to work a little, on the acceleration, in the longer climbs too. I therefore hope to be able to take a step forward in the next 3 weeks until the start of the round and then we will see when we start. Tadej looks really strong, it is difficult to see a weakness. We focus on ourselves and even if I saw something, I would not say it here”.
