“I don’t remember a time trial in which the winner puts 4.5 seconds per kilometer in second place. Not Indurain, nor Armstrong. Person ? “, was surprised on Twitter Michael Rasmussen at the arrival of the 16th stage of the Tour de France, the time trial Passy-Combloux, swallowed at 41.363 km / h by his compatriot Jonas Vingegaard who crushed the Tour in ahead of Tadej Pogacar by 1’38”.
Michael Rasmussen is none other than the rider wearing the yellow jersey on the 2007 Tour, who left through the back door in the dark night of Pau four days before the parade on the Champs-Élysées, fired by his Rabobank team for having lied about his training places, an essential criterion to satisfy unannounced anti-doping controls…
This Tuesday, Jonas Vingegaard stunned the Tour. He has, according to statistics from NTT Data, won with the largest margin in a Tour de France time trial since Tony Martin’s success in Périgueux in 2014. The German then distanced Tom Dumoulin by 1 ’39”, over a course of 55 kilometres.
