💛 10’’ 📈 🥇 Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 #TDF2023
Since 2007, Christian Prudhomme has been the race director at the Tour de France. In all those many years, few if any Tour de France's have been as action-packed as the 2023 edition of the race, something that has left Prudhomme understandably delighted.
"We dreamed and expected a battle of the leaders. And we have it, since the first stage and the Côte de Pike," the 62-year-old Frenchman tells Cyclism'Actu in a rest day interview. "In the last week, the time trial and the Col la Loze will be essential, then the last stage of the Vosges, which was designed to have a real upheaval possible, with real difficulty for the teams to control the race."
Barely a stage has gone by so far at the 2023 Tour de France without plenty of drama and/or excitement, and the battle between Tadej Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates and Jonas Vingegaard's Jumbo-Visma have made it a real race for the ages. A truly memorable chapter in the long history of the Tour de France.
"There is this fight between the leaders, but there is also this team-against-team fight, with opposing strategies. We have the feeling that at all levels, whether it is sports for leaders, sports for teams, but also logistics," continues Prudhomme. "It's a terrible showdown, a boxing fight. I don't know if it will end in points, or maybe there will be a knockout at the end, but in any case, in the meantime, it makes us salivate, that's for sure."
💛 10’’ 📈 🥇 Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 #TDF2023