"Big miss indeed" - Richard Plugge laments the absence of 'historical moment' from Netflix Tour de France documentary
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Ever since it dropped on Netflix, cycling fans around the world have been relieving the 2022 Tour de France through the Unchained documentary. Richard Plugge, a representative of Jumbo-Visma however, has noticed that a key moment of the race was surprisingly absent from the show.
It was on the 18th stage of the race that arguably the most iconic image of the 2022 Tour de France came to fruition. As Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar looked to put time into their rivals on a tricky descent, Pogacar's wheel slipped and he found himself on the floor. In a classy move however, Vingegaard opted against putting time into his nemesis while he was down and instead sat up and waited for the Slovenian.
It was the absence of this moment and the subsequently iconic image of the pair shaking hands, after Pogacar had regained contact, that Plugge was disappointed Netflix had chosen not to include in the documentary.
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"Big miss indeed, the sportsmanship Jonas showed that day is an historical moment," Plugge wrote on his official Twitter account in response to a Tweet about the flaws in the series. "Don’t want your opponent to crash in a dangerous descent, but fight for it on the bike."
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Big miss indeed, the sportsmanship Jonas showed that day is an historical moment. Don’t want your opponent to crash in a dangerous descent, but fight for it on the bike.
#TDFUnchained: fine, but fairly unremarkable. Some slightly odd narratives and production choices. No itvs with domestiques. Two big obvious problems - no Pogacar itvs (just like DTS with Verstappen), and the most iconic moment wasn't included.
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