Announced as the main rival of Tadej Pogacar on the Tour de France, Jonas Vingegaard is still far from the account, according to Marc Madiot.
All the lights are green for Tadej Pogacar. After having chained the demonstrations of force on the spring classics, the Slovenian appears as the great favorite to his succession on the Tour de France. Consequence of its recital on the recent criterium of the Dauphiné.
If he experienced a small alert on the time trial, the leader of the UAE-Emirates team flew over mountain debates, decorating three successes from his victory to general ahead of Jonas Vingegaard and Florian Lipowitz, Remco Evenepoel failing at the foot of the podium. The limits of the double Olympic mountain champion also make Danish the main threat to Tadej Pogacar.
However, the runner of the Visma-Lease A Bike does not seem to have arms to compete with the world champion. At least that is Marc Madiot’s opinion. “We see that Pogacar is at its best level, especially in the mountains. There may be some details to adjust on the time, but overall, it has been very strong since the start of the season. Vingegaard seemed to me in shape, but he still lacks a little something to compete with Pogacar on the whole line, “he said to Cyclism’Actu.
Jonas Vingegaard confined to a supporting role
“There is clearly a gap between them and the rest, even if Evenepoel is also at an excellent level. Last year’s hierarchy seems to be confirmed ”, he insisted, adding: “If we trust what we have observed, there is no need to be a great specialist to say that Pogacar is the number one favorite. »»
“But you always have to be wary. The tour is three weeks with a lot of pitfalls: the mountain, the times, the tracking stages, the wind, the peloton management …, he only nuanced. There are a lot of parameters that we try to control, but that we never control 100 %. There are always the vagaries of the race. So everything remains open, even if on paper, Pogacar checks more boxes than the others. »»
