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Tour de France: "We fought at the back when we were planning to fight at the front", the dirty day of the Jumbo

2022-07-06T19:23:18.226Z


Between panic and bad luck, the Jumbo Visma armada experienced a nightmare this Wednesday between Lille and Arenberg. His co-leader Rog


“Jonas, Jonas!

It is 5:20 p.m. and a Dutch journalist calls out the first of the Jumbo Vismas to finish with the ordeal of Arenberg.

Jonas Vingegaard, his face blackened with dust and pain, is barely recognizable.

He suddenly raises one eye, as if waking him up from a nightmare, and gets on the bus without a word.

The contrast is striking.

Since the start of the Tour, the Danish prodigy had hardly crossed the finish line on his scrubbing mount with disarming enthusiasm.

A thank you here to his sporting director, a good word there for his fan club on the other side of the barriers.

It's 5:20 p.m., this Wednesday day of the 5th stage, and the yellow has given way to black among the bees of the Jumbo.

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So certainly, Wout Van Aert will wear his yellow jersey this Thursday for a fourth day to his great astonishment.

Admittedly, the young Vingegaard finally dropped only thirteen seconds in Pogacar, sparkling with ease on the cobblestones.

But difficult to think of these bits of clearing so much the sky darkened in the North without warning.

Vingegaard's "panic", Roglic's dislocated shoulder

The festival of bad luck began 96 km from the finish, before entering the first of the eleven difficulties of the day.

Wout Van Aert falls in a bend.

We think he has recovered but, ten minutes later, a new fright, an imprudence nearly sends him into the back of a sporting director's car.

The worries of the very nervous yellow jersey are nothing compared to those who wait an hour later for the duo he is supposed to protect.

4:27 p.m., Jonas Vingegaard's chain gets stuck.

The “panic” attack, as he conceded, can begin.

The dolphin of the 2021 edition changes his bike three times in less than a kilometer, the saddle of the first two machines borrowed from his colleagues being too high.

Multiple bike changes for 🇩🇰 Jonas Vingegaard, he's looking for one that fits, he's going to have a lot of work to chase this back!



🇩🇰 Jonas Vingegaard suffered a puncture at the worst time, he changed bikes several times before taking one to his size!#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/x7oVtJ25Lh

— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 6, 2022

The journey to the end of hell reaches its climax eight minutes later.

Primoz Roglic's turn to hit the ground.

The impact is as traumatic as it is spectacular.

Forced to put his shoulder back in place himself, by borrowing the seat of a spectator, he is now relegated to more than two minutes and thirty seconds from his compatriot and Slovenian rival.

“We will see how I can continue”

His retirement last summer after only eight stages is on everyone's mind.

"We'll see how I can continue," he said simply, before joining his bloody left buttock.

At the same time, in front of the bus, his teammates were still trying to explain the inexplicable between two pats on the shoulder.

“We recognized the stage four times but that is useless when luck is not with you”, motto the sporting director Grischa Niermann.

“It's a shitty result, abounds Vingegaard.

We wasted time.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

I remain confident in my form and in what we are capable of doing in the mountains.

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Wout Van Aert has a sense of formula and synthesis.

“We fought at the back when we were planning to fight at the front,” said the man who still raised a big doubt in all this misfortune.

It is now certain, the Yellow Jersey will be able to turn into a super-teammate when the race imposes it.

It was he who took Vingegaard and the peloton like a big man in his wake to limit damage.

Suddenly, the hierarchy was clarified in the Jumbo.

Unfortunately, not in the desired way and timing.

Source: leparis

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