Tour de France – For Bradley Wiggins, Tadej Pogacar has already won

“A lot has happened since winning here in 2020“, he tempers. But chrono or stage in line, Board or Super Board, it doesn’t matter, the result was the same. But it was not only for sporting reasons that he wanted to make an impression: “My wife Urska was there at the finish line, and the rest of my family at the bottom of the climb.”

The ‘Tadej Time’

His supremacy asserts itself day after day, but on Friday, he still found someone to talk to with Jonas Vingegaard. We even thought that the Dane was going to win, before he finally gave in in the last meters. “Jonas attacked really hardhighlights the yellow jersey. But I said to myself that after the work provided by my teammates all day, I had to attack to the line.” What ‘Pogi’ wants, we tell you…

“I know people are going to say to me ‘Oh, you can’t say that, the public must continue to be interested’Adopt Bradley Wiggins. I understand all that, but I just think the Tour is over, because against its main opponentshe proved he was the best. So, unless there is a crash, an injury, the Covid… He would have to physically collapse and it’s hard to imagine that since he has never physically collapsed..”

“Nothing is done, there are no huge gaps in the general classification, insists the leader of the UAE Emirates Team. We saw today that many runners are very strong. Next week, we will go much higher. Vingegaard is a great climber, one of the best in the world and perhaps the best at the moment. He will of course be a rival for me, he also has a very strong team.”

Consensual, or pragmatic it depends, Tadej Pogacar therefore remains on his guard, but he also knows what he is worth. “I feel good. I trust“, he says with a smile that we don’t really know if he’s childish or carnivorous. Both, perhaps. Nothing scares him. Not even the hypothesis (incredibly improbable to date) of an alliance of all his adversaries to destabilize him. When the idea is submitted to him, he concludes with another obviousness: “An alliance against me? Maybe. But in the end, it’s the legs that do the talking.” Hers have the verb too high for anyone.