Completely reinvigorated, the Tadej. After his worrying slack in the 5th stage, where he had given up a little over a minute to Jonas Vingegaard, Pogacar set the record straight by managing to let go of his rival twice, in the final towards Cauterets -Combasque then the Puy de Dôme, before the rest day on Monday. Returning to 17 seconds from the outgoing winner at the start of the second week, the Slovenian seems to be in full swing. In any case, he is light-hearted enough to laugh a little.
On his Instagram account, Pogi posted a video where we see him in the streets of Clermont-Ferrand bringing back a baguette on his bike, with all his equipment, then crunching it with appetite. All against an equivocal musical background, the title “Ça plane pour moi” by Plastic Bertrand. Take that, Vingegaard.
The battle between the two cadors of this Tour de France will resume even more at the end of the week, with the arrival of the peloton in the Alps. “We will see who they really suit best. I like the stages in the Alps, I carried out reconnaissance, ”said Pogacar, with a smirk, during a video press conference on Monday.
The UAE team leader also had a quick note for the Jumbo, which hinted he couldn’t do better than what he showed in the Puy de Dôme. “They don’t know my training or all my race data. They don’t know how much I weigh, they don’t know a whole lot about me so they can only guess, he replied. I can say it was one of my good climbs but I can still be better. »