Roglic is very serious

The Tour de France is just around the corner (from June 29th), and the two great candidates will be Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, with the latter still awaiting confirmation as to whether he will make the appointment. and it depends on how he does it, but there is a third favorite who has put everything on the line, left his comfort zone (Visma) for the opportunity, who knows if it will be his last, to win the most important race in the world. This is Primož Roglic, who is with Bora, and although he had a bit of a difficult start, he is showing his best version. Second consecutive victory in Dauphine, this time in the yellow jersey and on Queen’s Day and he is more of a leader and everything is in sight to close this Sundayas well as on the mountain stage, this is his second overall result in the race after 2022. And, in the Spanish way, great fame and great performances, each in his own way.

The seventh and penultimate day began in Albertville, the very point from which the 2022 Tour de France stage began, ending at the Col du Granon, with those countless attacks and fruitful, from the then Jumbo to Pogacar. There are four ascents in total, three of them first category and the last one out of category. A day to put everyone in their true place. Even before the first ascent began, a squad of fifteen participants had already formed, among whom was Marc Soler, the only Spaniard and, ultimately, the protagonist. In the platoon commanded by Bora, Vlasov, Roglic’s luxurious, outgoing personality, suffered, but these were bad times because he later returned to his best level. A new ascent arrived, with good understanding between the escape, and the advantages were significant so that one could at least dream of victory, realizing that the arrival of 1600 people in Samoens could blow everyone up, which is what happened.

Then came the famous “escape from the escape” as Marc Soler sought the solo epic, those gallops that had given him such good results in races such as La Vuelta. The rest of the break (Formolo, Fortunato…) could not keep up with the Catalan, who from that moment had to start fighting with the favorites of the general classification. Walking distance to final climb, 10 km, average 9.3%, The UAE player arrived with a four-minute lead. Under other circumstances I would have done it halfway. Against some of the best in the world in such a difficult port. The group of favorites became smaller and smaller, and in the first part of the climb they had already taken two minutes off Soler with signs of fatigue, which is understandable. which saw him almost crash into the wall, with almost no false flats or stops throughout the climb.

Victory was behind us. It would not have been for Evenepoel, who gave up at 5.5 km. He has already warned that he will not arrive in the best shape, but the feelings before his debut on the Tour will not be the best. His teammate Mikel Landa was free to go forward with the others. There were 2 km left to go when Soler’s adventure came to an end and, together with the aforementioned Landa, Javier Romo, Oyer Lazcano and Carlos Rodriguez offered resistance. All signs pointed to an understated finish that was being overtaken by the excellent Lazcano, a runner who had never done so well in the high mountains and was telling of what he could become. There were 400 meters left, and Jorgenson remained behind the wheel of Bask, ahead of Roglic in turn… and at such distances, with the finish in the background, the Slovenian was unstoppable. This Sunday marks the culmination of the meeting between Dauphine and Bora, who has more than a minute left to defend his yellow jersey at the top of the Plateau de Glier. Carlos Rodriguez, fifth, 45 seconds from the podium. There will be opportunities to advance your career in this aspect, but it will be difficult to overthrow Roglic, who is very serious.

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