Special Envoy to Saint Gervais Mont-Blanc
The fifteenth stage of the Tour de France between Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil and Saint Gervais Mont Blanc ended on a status quo between the yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar who did not leave each other in a single gut this Sunday. The double winner of the Grande Boucle is still ten seconds behind the Scandinavian in the general classification before the rest day on Monday.
On Tuesday, the two men will compete in a time trial between Passy and Combloux, 22.4 km long. An appointment that the Slovenian is looking forward to. “In the time trial, I believe there will be gaps,” warned “Pogi”, also planning for the next day’s stage and a climb to Courchevel where it will also be possible to make the difference with “one of the toughest climbs in the world.” The leader of the UAE Emirates team does not forget the twentieth stage, the day before the arrival in Paris “which can make the difference.”
The closest objective remains the time trial which Pogacar has already recognized this year. “I liked this course which suits me well. We will go back there once tomorrow because we don’t sleep far from the track, ”added the wearer of the white jersey of the best young person who is content with his position as hunter. “I’m happy to be only ten seconds behind a runner like Vingegaard like that, I can be more aggressive and more attacking than passive”, concluded the double winner of the Grande Boucle (2020 and 2021) interviewed by France Televisions.
