This Friday, July 18, we attended a new demonstration of the yellow jersey of this Tour de Francethe Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), which once again outlined all its opponents in this time trial between Loudenvielle and the Altaport de Peyragudes. The American, winner of Tour of Spain In 2023, Sepp kiss (Team Visma | Lease A Bike), spoke after arriving at our microphone in Cyclism’Actu On the training strategy Visma | Lease a Bike During the 12th stage towards Hautacam, but also on the future plans of the team to defeat the solid carrier of the yellow jersey, Tadej Pogacar.
“In cycling, anything can happen …”
“Yesterday, it was rather normal for me”the American begins. “My finish line was the top of the Soulor. So it was different to make my effort there, compared to the others that had to go to the end. It was really very hot, the conditions were hard, very fast on the dish. The whole first half of the race was very explosive, and it did a lot of damage in the peloton. We can no longer really be surprised by Tadej (Pugacar). We see the images again and that we see how quickly he rose, digging the gap, it makes sense on such a difficult climb.
Four minutes? It is clearly a big gap, so if we just look at the paper, we could say that it's over. But it's cycling, anything can happen. We saw Pogacar fall just after the day of rest. You can find yourself trapped behind a break, have a bad time … anything can happen. There are still the hardest stages. You just have to focus on what you can control, and seize opportunities when they arise. Yesterday, we drove at the pace that we wanted to impose. The idea was to isolate Pogacar from the Soulor. If we had all been in a big day, I think we could have hurt at that time. But we had to adjust the strategy a little, which is not a concern. When we make our movements in the race, these are moments when the effort is fair for everyone. We do not tow the peloton for 200 km. Of course, you have to give yourself thoroughly, but you use the right runners at the right time. Very often, it hurts more to be in 6th position than to be in 1st or 2nd when we launch the attack. So I think we manage it rather intelligently. “concludes Sepp kiss to our microphone Cyclism’Actu.
