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Tour de France: Tom Pidcock wins on Alpe d'Huez as Jumbo-Visma defend themselves against Tadej Pogacar's offensive
CyclingThursday, 14 July 2022 at 18:15
Stage 12 of the Tour de France promised spectacle and it delivered. Jonas Vingegaard resisted the attacks of Tadej Pogacar at the Alpe d'Huez and defended the yellow jersey, as Tom Pidcock took the stage for INEOS Grenadiers from the breakaway.
The start of the day saw a hard ascent of the Col du Galibier. It was a chaotic start with some very large groups going up the road, and a small early group making it over the Galibier in front, blown to bits. After the descent the race recollected, with Chris Froome (Israel - Premier Tech) and Tom Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers) who attacked over the top of the climb, joining Louis Meintjes and Kobe Goossens (Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux), Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), Giulio Ciccone (Trek - Segafredo), Anthony Perez (Cofidis) and Sebastian Schönberger (B&B Hotels-KTM).
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Over the Col de la Croix de Fer the race consolidated, with Jumbo-Visma controlling the peloton with a conservative pace, whilst in the front only five were left: Froome; Pidcock, Meintjes, Ciccone and Powless. In the peloton it was all to be decided in the final ascent as the riders conserved their legs for the mythical Alpe d'Huez.
The breakaway entered the final climb with six minutes of advantage, with Tom Pidcock attacking near the base. Meintjes and Froome briefly tried to bridge across, however with ten kilometers to go the gap started to expand. In the pack, Jumbo-Visma set a strong pace, preventing attacks from surging behind deep into the ascent.
Tadej Pogacar attacked inside the final five kilometers but was unable to drop Vingegaard. Shortly after joined again by Sepp Kuss who showed his best form once again and Geraint Thomas. Pogacar tried one more time but without success, being perfectly matched by the Jumbo-Visma leader, as they arrived at the finish together.
In the front Tom Pidcock took the stage win, with Louis Meintjes and Chris Froome completing the podium.
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
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- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024