Vingegaard vs Pogacar part 3 | Tour de France champion leads Jumbo-Visma at Il Lombardia
CyclingFriday, 07 October 2022 at 19:00
Jumbo-Visma have seen most of their main riders head off on a well-deserved off-season, but Jonas Vingegaard, who has recently returned to competition, is still looking to make a different as he leads the Dutch team at Il Lombardia.
Following his Tour de France success, it were a long couple of months away from racing for the Dane, who looked to enjoy his victory before returning to a competitive level. His return at Cro Race saw him take two stage wins - against a modest peloton however - and finishing second in the overall classification, losing it in the final day against Matej Mohoric.
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With Tadej Pogacar considered by many as the man to beat, Vingegaard will find himself in familiar terrain. The terrain isn't as suited to him, but he will lead the Dutch team, whilst veteran Robert Gesink who showed brilliant form at the Vuelta a Espana, Koen Bouwman who took two stage wins and the KOM jersey at the Giro d'Italia and world time-trial champion Tobias Foss will be men to look out for on the road.
The team is concluded by the trio of Sam Oomen, Gijs Leemreize and Chris Harper who will be riding in supportive roles for whoever the Dutch team feels is their best option.
Jumbo-Visma for Il Lombardia: Jonas Vingegaard, Gijs Leemreize, Sam Oomen, Robert Gesink, Koen Bouwman, Tobias Foss and Chris Harper.
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- This is pretty much a low bar for a star rider. Domestiques from other teams got higher GC rankings than him. Either he has to really train for those 1 hour climb or give up on GC hope altogether. Not a fan of Pidcock, but I think he's definitely capable of doing better if he really trained for long climbs, which his coach said he didn't. Best of luck to him.
KerisVroom05-06-2025 - Nuh, realistically, Jonas is the only main rival unless some accidents befall Tadej.KerisVroom05-06-2025
- I just simply don't believe team orders were at fault. In what world would a pink jersey leader knowingly throw away their lead just to follow team orders? Del Toro surely knew the gap to Yates was growing and he was going to lose his lead. So either Del Toro didn't have the legs or he was stupid and listened to alleged team orders to only follow Carapaz. It simply does not make sense - I mean even if the team orders were true, Del Toro shouldn't take it literally e.g. if Carapaz crashed and all the other top ten riders went 3mins up the road, would Del Toro really be stupid enough to "follow team orders" and stick with Carapaz? This is an exaggerated example, but it is exactly what Del Toro did with Yates. Del Toro only has himself to blame - if someone is threatening your lead, you chase, it shouldn't take team orders to tell you to do that!Pogboom05-06-2025
- Chris Froome...who cares yet he gets top billing here!frieders305-06-2025
- "The idea was we’d race to win every day – or every day that suited me – and do the best GC I could." It was supposed to be "either or", not "and". The dreams of GC glory are confounded by the lack of recovery. He should have stuck to stage wins.abstractengineer04-06-2025
- There are three GT winners in that group and all different onesabstractengineer04-06-2025
- Nobody, it aint the TDFabstractengineer04-06-2025
- RIP Mustafa Ayyorkun.
santiagobenites04-06-2025 - From what I can gather, seems the DS had drilled into Del Toro before the race and again at the start of the long climb that he must mark Carapaz. Imperfect info made it difficult for the DS to directly tell Del Toro to close on Yates before the end of the climb, so it was mostly left to Del Toro's unexperienced judgement, who may have been near his limit anyways. In the end, probably either one could have lead the chase, but then would have come in third, while helping the other to first. Great execution of a great plan by Visma in Wout getting on top of the climb in advance and Yates being able to get that separation that caused the stalemate behind him. Also, in hindsight, big mistake by both EF and UAE in letting the break and Wout get so far out.Meeper04-06-2025
- Don't think Carapaz and Del Toro could have reeled him back in once Yates got to Wout; too big of an engine. The lead would have been stretched long enough to prevent them from closing the gap at the end.Meeper04-06-2025