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"Do I or Pogacar have the advantage? It's hard to say" - Jonas Vingegaard unsure what to expect at the end of Tour de France time-trial
CyclingTuesday, 18 July 2023 at 11:21
Stage 16 of the Tour de France will be the race's sole time-trial. Short and with plenty climbing, it should see a battle between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard for the stage win, with the yellow jersey in play once again.
“That will be a very important stage. There are only ten seconds between us, so the time trial could even prove decisive in the end," Vingegaard told DR. "I'm just going to get the best out of it in the chrono. Later in the week there are again two tough stages on the program, in which it is possible to make large time differences. But in the end I do think that the time trial can be decisive."
In the rest day the GC riders have explored the route of this Tuesday's time-trial, a discipline where both the Dane and the Slovenian thrive on. Hence, it will not be easy to forecast who will come out on top, if any - as the last two mountain stages have shown, they have not been able to distance each other. After two weeks of intense racing almost day in day out only 10 seconds separate the duo, in Vingegaard's advantage.
"It is difficult to predict how things will go. So far we are fairly equal to each other, so that could just be the case again in the time trial," he admits. "In any case, the course should suit me. I do like the courses where it is not long pounding on a flat piece. I always like that difference in speed. Do I or Pogacar have the advantage? It's hard to say, we really aren't that far apart."
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