Primoz Roglic on the ground, completely stunned.

The Slovenian has lived a day-without after three weeks of complete mastery on the part of his team.

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Christophe Petit-Tesson / AP / SIPA

  • Uncompromising from the start, the Jumbo-Visma team experienced enormous disillusionment with the failure of its leader Primoz Roglic, beaten this Saturday by the incredible Tadej Pogacar.

  • What can the Dutch team be ashamed of?

    Not much.

    “We didn't see it coming,” Tom Dumoulin admitted on arrival.

  • For his part, Primoz Roglic was a good player: “Tadej was much better than me […] He deserves his victory, congratulations to him.

    "

Small teaser of a paper that you will not read tonight.

Everything was ready in this “How Roglic knocked out the Tour” with a full paragraph on the Jumbo-Visma.

This armada which had mastered everything in this edition ... until the Pogacar earthquake this Saturday on the stopwatch of La Planche des Belles Filles.

What can the Dutch team do in this incredible turnaround?

A priori not much. "We did not see it coming", admitted Tom Dumoulin on arrival, without really understanding what was going on.

Or how the new Yellow Jersey had just stuck to him one minute over 36.2 kilometers and nearly two to his leader, Primoz Roglic.

"Everything has been going well for three weeks"

"He had a good feeling this morning, he was ready," he rewound.

We thought that this 57 "lead would be sufficient but no. It was the reality of the day. We are obviously very disappointed because everything has been going well for three weeks." Better still, the former Rabobank team had completely padlocked the race. Pinot or Bernal blasters, the fantastic flights are over With the Jumbo-Visma, named after a supermarket brand and an IT company, no room for chance.

In three weeks, Roglic had twice had to fend for himself.

In the ascent of Peyresourde in the first week and in the Loze pass, when his teammate Sepp Kuss had let him finish the job against Pogacar.

The rest of the time ?

Gesink, Martin, Van Aert, Jansen, Dumoulin, the same Kuss and Bennett had given the tempo and the giddy to the other formations.

Worse, the old dominant power, the Sky became Ineos, seemed out of date in the face of this yellow and black train.

"Tadej was much much better than me"

Except that Roglic broke this Saturday when Pogacar was flying.

"I had a bad day," he confessed before the handsome losing player.

“Tadej was much better than me [...] He deserves his victory, congratulations to him.

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"I just gave everything I had [...] I had the gaps in the headset, I knew what was going on, I just couldn't push as fast as I could have desired.

I was fighting against myself, ”then explained the fallen king.

A way to exempt anyone else from their failure.

Even his new helmet: “Let's not talk about the hardware, it doesn't help much, I just didn't have enough power.

And his partners could not do anything about it.

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