It began with UAE’s Marc Soler, alone, off the back, vomiting on the bike, clearly in extreme distress. Pogačar was now down to three.
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Smiling, devilish Tadej Pogačar suddenly has the stronger team in the mountains – it would seem anyway. Yank Brandon McNulty and Rafel Maijka both of whom have been fantastic this Tour, and the enigmatic Marc Soler give the Slovenian real power to call on for the climbs.
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Someone forgot to tell Tadej Pogačar that the Merckx era was 50-years ago, and that cycling has changed so much that the old era is almost unrecognizable from the modern.
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‘The orthopedist surgeon of the Tour reveals to what point racing cyclists can suppress pain and under what conditions they perform their profession.’
By Alexander Roos, July 21, 2021
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Tadej Pogačar, the ‘petite cannibal’ who devoured the Best Climber, Best Young Rider and the Yellow Jerseys, is an amazing figure, blessed with a maturity that belies his years.
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The time trial confirmed the existing standing of the race, there were no great changes but the third-place performance of Vingegaard proved the young Dane’s worth, his second overall in this Tour an unexpected and delightful result for the understudy, thrown suddenly into a starring role with the crash of his leader, Primoz Roglič.
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It’s so tough for the young riders of today; one feels that no one is standing up for them, no one willing to make the efforts to understand just how much they’ve been leading the entire world in changing the culture of professional sport.
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Gaudu, who had vomited his way up Mount Ventoux and demonstrated fantastic resolve afterwards as his current 11th overall shows, held a 40” lead, alone on the Tourmalet, but behind the Ineos machine was in full gear.
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From the base of the Peyresourde, over the Louron and onto the final Portet, the UAE Emirates looked like the Sky of old. Dane Mikkel Bjerg’s face told the story of the effort, the 6’3”, 171-pounder hauling his carcass deep into the climbs.
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The race was furious for the first 100-k until the break was finally established and the Yellow Jersey contenders, with an eye on today’s crucial mountaintop finish, sat up and let a 12-minute gap open.
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By 22-years-old LeMond had won the Dauphinè and was World Champion, Pogačar at the same age already has a Tour de France in the pocket plus a Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but exact time/result comparisons can’t be measured because of the differences in eras.
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In front, Wout van Aert began to contest the mountain points and a tremendous fight for Polka Dot broke out between the Belgian, Nairo Quintana, Mike Woods – in Polka Dot on the day – and Wout Poels.
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Then there’s the enigma of Team Ineos and their leader Richard Carapaz. The team has never been on the backfoot like this, Richie Porte seems to be having issues, Geraint Thomas keeps crashing and hurting his already damaged body, and they’ve lost Luke Rowe, their road captain.
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After a pause to allow the stragglers to rejoin, the peloton burst into action anew with Team Ineos mounting an echelon attack.
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I watched the start of the race and right from the neutral section, where the racers amass around the Race Director’s car, Politt was right in the front. The flag went down and in a stunning sight, the entire peloton began sprinting, a row of flailing racers curb to curb across the road with Politt leading the charge.
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I’ve been watching Jonas Vinegaard all year, especially after his excellent second place behind Primoz Roglič at the Tour of the Basque Country
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It’s said that bicycle road racers are the last of the ‘Chevaliers’ – the knights of old galloping through the countryside in search of battle and plunder, their kings always at the head of the charging horde, leading them into battle
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He was most impressive on the stage, run under the most challenging conditions imaginable: Cold, cold rain hammers the racers over the 4500 total meters of climbing that went above 2000 meters for the first time this Tour.
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Pogačar’s UAE-Emirates team was back, Rui Costa put in a sterling performance, but it was American Brandon McNulty and Italian David Formolo who provided the crucial work on the penultimate Col de Romme, setting a fierce pace that eliminated many of the favorites and set their leader up for his assault on the race.
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The sight of the Yellow Jersey on the attack like this in the Tour is a throwback to – I don’t know..the 1960’s? Gone, and not missed, are the days of suffocating control, of calculated-to- the-millimeter efforts.
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