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The 2020 Tour favorites face a tricky test today: seven eligible ports through the Massif Central, with a high finish line in Puy Mary (5.4 kilometers at 8.1%). In his 11th participation in the gala round, a veteran like Imanol Erviti explains the problems found in this area: “It is a continuous up and down, with narrow roads and buttons. I do not know very well what happens with the Massif, but there are always busy stages and considerable differences “.
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Mikel Landa, tenth overall, 1:42 behind Primoz Roglic, is clear about his strategy: “From now on all the days in the mountains will mean opportunities to go on the attack. We have to cut and cut. I feel in a very good shape, as I showed in the Pyrenees, and of spirits I also feel very good, convinced that if I continue in this good line of performance I will aspire to the podium in Paris “.
Egan Bernal, Defender of the title and runner-up, 21 seconds behind the yellow jersey, he doesn’t want to get impatient: “We will look for the occasions without rushing, yet all the Alps and the chrono will be missing from La Planche des Belles Filles “. Asked about a hypothetical pact between Colombian cyclists, suggested by Nairo QuintanaTo unseat the Slovenians, he was not enthusiastic at all: “Nairo says now that we fight together, when in the occasions in which I asked him relief he did not grant it to me. We compete by teams, not by countries. “
Nairo, fifth to 32 seconds, slipped than “maybe should exist an understanding between the four Colombian runners “ who fight for the drawer of the Champs Elysees. He invoked Bernal, Urán (sixth, with the same lost time as him); and Superman (ninth, at 1:15). But it did not achieve the expected response. However, Slovenians do not know about fraternizing either. Roglic considers Tadej Pogacar (seventh, 44 seconds behind) “the strongest runner in the race”: “Now it is my turn to manage the rent for the Alps and the time trial.” And Pogacar sees Roglic as “the man to dethrone”: “I will not stop fighting to remove differences. Until my legs can not hold more.”
