Pogacar lost yellow shirt after two years at Tour de France
In the last two seasons, Pogacar has always kept the Yellow Jersey until the end of the race, once he has risen to the top of the overall table of the Tour de France. In 2020, the Slovenian won the Yellow Jersey from stage 20 and successfully defended the first place until the last leg. Last season, he dominated from stage 8. But Pogacar was unable to maintain this impressive performance at the 2022 Tour de France, despite winning the Yellow Jersey from Belgian rider Wout Van Aert in stage 6.
Yesterday, there was a route of 151.7 km from Albertville to Col Du Granon with four mountains, of which the highest Colibier Colibier tops with a height of 2,642 m above sea level and 17.7 km long with a middle slope. 6.9%bottle. By the end of the journey, the crabs had to climb continuously 9.2% to handle the target at the top of Col Du Granon.
Along with teammate Primoz Roglic, Vingegaard kept attacking Pogacar as he climbed. But whenever opponents tried to isolate them from the UAE-UAE team, Pogacar took it in his stride. Even the Tour de France winner of the last two years smiled confidently at the TV cameras before entering the final climb.
With the help of teammate Rafal Majka, Pogacar rose to the top of the group. But in the end, the effort to make the opponent consume the physical strength of the Jumbo-Visma racers was effective. In the final 5 km, Vingegaard escaped alone and finished with a time of 4 hours 18 minutes 2 seconds, leading runner-up Nairo Quintana of Arkea Samsic's team to 59 seconds. Pogacar finished seventh, 2 minutes and 51 seconds behind Vingegaard.
Vingegaard revealed the strategy of the Jumbo - Visma team that was planned for months, in order to make the most of the collective strength. Denmark added: "I can't do this without my teammates. They can't believe it. When I accelerated, I felt that Pogacar seemed to be broken. This time, I wanted to win and succeeded ".
This is the first time Vingegaard won one leg at the tour de France. Last year, he came second after Pogacar himself. "Now I have a yellow shirt to continue fighting all the way to Paris," Vingegaard emphasized.
Yesterday's victory helped Vingegaard take the lead with a record of 41 hours 29 minutes 59 seconds, lead Romain Bardet of the DSM team 2 minutes 19 seconds and Pogacar 2 minutes 22 seconds.
Today, Tour de France 2022 will continue to race on the 12th stage with a 165.5 km long climbing race from Briancon to Alpe d'Huez, France.
