Yesterday we saw him suffer a lot. He gave everything to lose as little as possible to Pogacar at the end of the Galibier and then had no strength to pedal on the descent, so he was caught by Carlos Rodriguez, Remco Evenepoel and company and arrived at the finish completely empty. On Friday he will have another test of fire in an individual time trial of 25 kilometers in which, as it seems, Tadej should continue to take time off the man who has beaten him the last 2 Tours.
Christian Josimar, analyst of our colleagues at
El Contraanálisis, is not sure that Jonas Vingegaard will improve during the Tour, at least not compared to Pogacar, and he uses the Slovenian as an example:
Last year Tadej Pogacar crashed in Liège and came very short of form to the Tour. Despite this, he held his own in the early stages and fell apart at the end. We'll see what happens in this Grande Boucle. We don't want to go against Visma's data, but it's strange to think that a guy who arrives without proper preparation to a grand tour can improve in the third week... but with Visma and Jonas nothing is out of the question.
We will also have to see how the Giro d'Italia affects Tadej and if his performance drops in the last week. We will discover everything day by day in a Tour de France that is being exciting and looks set to be so until the end;