Tour de Francia 2020 Counterchronic stage 15
Colorn colorado … still being the toughest stages, this Tour de France is over. Or at least the fight to win it. There is a super team, more dominating than anyone remembered, above the US Postal de Armstrong, Hamilton, Livingston … the thing about the Jumbo-Visma is tremendous. Dumoulin will be the second top seed to win La Grande Boucl, if it weren’t, would run in the same team as Roglic.
It is that there are four men escorting the leader, Primoz Roglic, who leave the wheel in the final climb to the current Tour champion, Egan Bernal, and Nairo Quintana. Two of the best Colombian climbers in history hang to the rhythm of Wout Van Aert, a 25-year-old Belgian cyclocross world champion … capable of sprinting Sagan … and now taking down the best climbers in the Tour de France.
And the leader still had Kuss, Gesink y Tom Dumoulin, almost nothing. Who is going to stick their head out? If the Jumbo-Visma look like the Saeco train that Cipollini had in the plains to win the volatas … only those in yellow and in high mountains. If what I am telling you seems exaggerated, here is another piece of information: 10 kilometers from the finish line, the group of favorites, and at the head of the race, had 15 cyclists. 5, FIVE, were from Jumbo.
It would save the possibility of them attacking the leader’s team from afar, so that Roglic wouldn’t arrive with so many friends at the port, but nobody wants to risk, everyone is content to be second … Perhaps it is time to recognize, as Carlos de Andrs says, that in modern cycling to attack seven kilometers from the finish line is to be very brave. Well, eston na ‘has not changed.
A little optimism. Landism lives. She is still there, latent, with her leader. Mikel Landa (Bahrain) passing the mountain with the best (holding the rhythm of the Jumbo). Before the Tour ends, attack, because Landa is not missing with this appointment and anything can happen there. Meanwhile, he continues to climb positions in the general classification. As Enric Mas (Movistar), by the way …
A round of applause, at least, the escapees of the day deserve: Gifts y Trentino (CCC), which fights against mills for the green, Marked (UAE Emirates), Leadnois (Arkea), Bonifazio (Direct Energie) and, above all, Herrada (Cofidis) and above all the above,Rolland (B&B) y Micahel Gogl (NTT). Damn, what the Austrian from NTT suffered going up Fromentel and La Biche, where he got off the hook several times from Herrada and Rolland, but dosing himself up to the Colombier. There Rolland left him and there too died the day’s escape, sucked into Jumbo’s climbing train as if it were a trowel and a sprint finish.
Peter Sagan’s eighth green jersey (Bora) is not going to be easy. With the Irish Sam Bennett (Deceuninck) has run into. The sprinter wants to continue being the leader of regularity and this was demonstrated in the first kilometers of the stage. He put his team to work to launch the intermediate sprint, his partner Morkov slipped between him and Sagan and extended his lead in the fight for green. 262 a 224 and this is Bennett-Sagan.
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