If he did not win the Ventoux stage on Tuesday, as some imagined, Tadej Pogacar took over a former doped his ascent record.
Winner of the 16e STEP Tuesday, after having tamed the Ventoux and Ben Healy, Valentin Paret-Peintre had entrusted to the arrival that he approached the stage without great ambitions.
“I really thought Pogacar wanted to win the stage and that he was going to try to padlock the race. I didn’t really believe it ”, had he explained.
If his team tried well, at the start of the stage, to reflect the most daring ardors, Tadej Pogacar finally had to be a reason and be content to follow a Jonas Vingegaard determined to play his all. Despite the repeated attacks of the Danish, the yellow jersey remained in contact and even preceded its rival in sprint for fifth place.
In addition to recovering the polka dot jersey for the best climber, the Slovenian was nevertheless been able to console himself with the climbing record of Mont-Ventoux. An exploded record since in 54’41 ”, he improved the previous mark of more than a minute. A performance that made it all the more react that the former Mont-Ventoux record, established during a time trial on the Dauphiné in 2004, was held by Iban Mayo, fell shortly after in the horror field of doping for the use of EPO.
“Another legendary record of crushed doped”
“Mutants have done it!” Pogacar, accompanied by Vingegaard, beat the record of all time of Ventoux by 44,47sec for 455 Watts Etalon and 21 km/h for 15.64 kms at 8.64 % by a minute for a minute for a minute record! “, Thus strangled Antoine Vayer. And this record is all the more edifying since the runners had to deal with an unfavorable wind and that the yellow jersey explained that he did not forced.
But the former coach at Festina was not the only one to be indignant at the performance of the Slovenian and his Danish partner.
“Another legendary record of Dopé crushed”, “he explodes the record of a guy who was responsible for testosterone and EPO. But apart from that nothing ladle, “this cinema is ridiculous. Strongly that he gets caught “,” Pogacar which puts 1 min 20 at the record of the Iban Mayo boiler, before declaring after the race he did not want to force today. “,” Pogacar who pulverizes the record of Ventoux held by an Iban Mayo who had preceded a certain Lance Armstrong … “,” Pogacar and Vingegaard slam more than a minute Mayo who was filled like a pharmacy cabinet ”… These are some of the comments that accompanied the new feat of Tadej Pogacar.
