Jonas Vingegaard Makes MASSIVE MOVE To Drop Tadej Pogacar In Stage 5 Of Tour de France 2023

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[mrsewe]

This was a mountain suited for Pogi. It was his turf. Now Vingegaard is gonna kill Pogi on the long climbs in the alps and only bad luck or a crash will stop the dane for wining his second Tour.

[threelegstwowheels]

It will be hard to beat that stage but already looking forward to tomorrow. 😁

[thomaspetersen]

Vingegaard with an incredible time – breaks the Pogacar record

Jonas Vingegaard didn't just put the competitors to the wall on Wednesday's stage – he also set an incredible time.

The Dane took 20 minutes and 57 seconds to run the Col de Marie Blanque, NTT Data sensors recorded according to the race. This means he beats Pogacar's time on the climb from 2020, when the Slovenian took his first stage win in the Tour de France. Here, Pogacar completed the climb in 22 minutes and 24 seconds.

Quite impressive.

[clauso]

Way to go Jonas. Strongest rider in this year's TDF 🎉🎉🇩🇰🇩🇰

[graywelz]

Still 16 stages left. Jonas will prevail

[jersonfigueiredo]

People before today's stage: "Pogacar is the clear favourite. He is better than anyone else".
People after today's stage: "Pogacar was injured, you know. That makes a big difference".
The funny part is: they knew of his injury before, and yet they all considered him the clear favourite. And now it's an excuse.
The truth is, Vingegaard is a better climber on long climbs. That is pretty clear at this point.

[livingspeed]

Vingegaard is the best climber in the world.

[RJMacReady]

Was funny to see all the couch experts calling this and that about the pog-vingo rivalry and how the latter just cant do anything without his team blabla last year was a fluke. Based on the first couple of stages which were tailormade for pog and really unsuitable for jonas.

[Matstarx]

Ciccone not allowed to pull for Vingegaard on the last stretch, looked like he wanted to though :D

[ChristianW]

Die hard Pogacar fanbois will start making excuses now.

[istceline]

Jonas est le plus fort ! c'est le champion du tour de France encore cette année

[ekm]

The thing with steep climbs is that there comes a point when your legs can’t go anymore and you are basically riding in pain. The one who can ride in pain longer excels. Jonas has trained himself that way. Those watts in that attack were ridiculous. Pog will try to respond tomorrow and the worst-case scenario for Jonas is to stick like glue to Pog to the finish line even if Pog wins, seconds won’t be much.

[dkvikingkd]

Let's hope for a great GC battle today on stage 6!

[twojohn]

Lucky for Pog it wasn't a summit finish or the Tour would be over already.

[thewen]

it's possible Pogacar won't be a contender this year. I think Hindley could be a real challenger for the maillot jaune

[danmoody]

I really hope pog can recover, very sad for him not doing well today

[emacss]

could someone explain why pogacar didnt react?

[saibot]

Vingegaard is better in the alps. He will win there.

[mm]

i didnt expect pogacar to be strong this year after injury that he had....

[fangru]

Kinda expected. I was waiting for this stage to see how Tadej form really is and its clear that his preparation for TdF suffered because of that wrist and now he is just not there with Jonas. Tour is basically over if Jonas does not crash or Hindley shows tomorrow that he can stay with Jonas. Its sad that we got robbed of great battles this year but thats cycling for ya...