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Primoz Roglic reinforced the arguments he defends in press conferences as Tour leader: Tadej Pogacar is right now his strongest and most dangerous rival, and thanks to the rhythm that the Jumbo prints he punishes his rivals without the need to attack, only based on control: “Tadej started again with explosiveness, and fortunately my legs responded well to me and I managed to get out on his wheel. We discount a dangerous day thanks to the team’s work. It corresponds to me to go more covered, to defend myself from the rivals, we have La Planche’s chrono as an asset ”. He Yellow also ruled out that the race is reduced to a heads-up between runners from Slovenia and Colombia: “Maybe two Slovenians will go first and second and four Colombians will chase us, but everything is still open.”
Pogacar, second to 44 seconds behind his compatriot, does not go out of his script either: “I attacked a block, all the energy that my legs gave. Unfortunately I didn’t pick up Primoz. I respect him a lot as a person and as an adversary, he always offered me good treatment and good advice. Although now what I need is to cut the differences and get the leader’s jersey ”. In his case, he snatched the first youth from Egan Bernal, who he distanced 15 seconds away.
Bernal, defending the title and third place, 59 ”behind Roglic, surrendered to the Slovenian duo. “You just have to accept when others are stronger than you. I have no choice but to try in the remaining stages and stay with high spirits ”, explained the head of Ineos, who crossed the finish line of the Puy Mary with blows and with a puzzled face. However, he denied going through a good bad time or having saved a critical day: “I feel good physically, but others performed better.”
