Tour de France week two recap: Pogačar and Vingegaard on deuce as Tour for the ages set for final week tiebreaker In a race synonymous with chaos, the leading pair’s compelling cat-and-mouse game of marginal gains seems the only constant cycling TDF2023
And amidst all that chaos, two things remain reassuringly constant: first, the seemingly passive acceptance that Jasper Philipsen is now the fastest sprinter in the world; and second, that Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard are truly in a league of their own when it comes to grand tour racing.
After Pogačar opened that narrow but telling gap on the Puy de Dôme last Sunday, the rope binding together the Slovenian and his Danish shadow has appeared steadily shorter over the course of the past week. Pogačar’s trademark sprint at the top of the Grand Colombier on Friday, after a stage-load of work from his UAE Team Emirates mates, clawed back another four seconds on the yellow jersey.
That sense of restored equilibrium was underlined on Sant-Gervais this afternoon, when the two Tour titans – like Poulidor and Anquetil, Lemond and Hinault before them – crossed the line side by side, barely a tyre between them .
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