The ultra domination of Tadej Pogačar over the rest of the peloton raises many questions.
Except earthquakes, Tadej Pogačar will win his fourth Tour de France July 27. The question is no longer really whether there is suspense concerning the identity of the winner of the big loop. But rather to know the extent of the gap between the Slovenian and the one that will end on the second step of the podium in Paris.
For the moment, the leader of UAE Team Emirates is ahead of the Danish Jonas Vingegaard of four minutes and thirteen seconds. Everything suggests that this time will be added in the coming days. Holder of more than one hundred professional victories at just 26 years old, the native of Klanek continues to impress. But also to question.
Inevitably, the last 35 years of the history of cycling lead to suspicion. Many of the Tour de France were the hegemony of
Tadej Pogacar To that of Lance Armstrong during the first half of the 2000 years. For Christophe Bérard, to draw such a parallel between the two runners is not founded.
Pogačar-Armstrong, a abyss in terms of equipment
“Comparison with dirty and lead years from Armstrong years does not make sense. Bikes, for a few years, have been real racing cars. And nutrition is much more to the point. This is not how to doubt “explains the journalist at the sports department of Parisianduring a cat with the readers.
The one following the large loop for regional daily life uses a comparison with Formula 1 to demonstrate the absurdity of such a shortcut. “It’s like composing the time of the Ferrari de Prost to that of Hamilton. No report!he assures. If we want to doubt, it is on the ultra domination of Pogacar on his opponents who have the same bikes. There, the abyss is enormous. »»
