Jumbo plays at being Ineos and Pogacar takes a slice

On Saturday he advanced through the Pyrenees with a leaden rhythm, with the peloton recovering the breath lost on Friday in an electric day, marked by the 'fans' that left

out of the game

... A getaway ahead of eight men without excessive pedigree made their way and soon realized that the stage was going to be for one of them, with 13 minutes to spare before the mountain began.

At the end of the day, the award was going to go to Nans Peters, French from Ag2r.

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That was how calm things were when the Jumbo-Visma decided that it was well to relax, that from then on the real Tour de France was going to begin.

The yellow row picked up the pace, applying the same roller that the Sky had patented in recent years, now Ineos, to cook Chris Froome's final victories.

Oblivious to all this was

, eternally embraced by misfortune, off the hook on the second difficulty of the day, in the harsh Port de Balès, and accompanied by four gregarious people in their hardship, like a funeral march that to his misfortune is already a classic of the last Tours.

Jumbo was on his own, with Gesink setting such a hard pace that he took down Kuss, Roglic's gregarious who in better shape seemed to arrive at the big event of the year.

There it already began to give the feeling that the Jumbo's strategy had cracks, although a piece of that caliber could well be sacrificed if the final result was positive.

Already in the last kilometers of Balès,

to show that he is the most complete cyclist in the world at the moment.

The Belgian then achieved the first of the team's goals: to leave Bernal and Carapaz alone, to completely dismantle Ineos.

At the beginning of the

, the last pass of the first day of the Pyrenees, there were only about 25 runners left in the lead while Roglic seemed to prepare his great attack.

Even more so after seeing how Dumoulin, the second bullet from the Jumbo, sacrificed himself for his partner after a peseta attack from Alaphilippe, more aimed at sucking camera than anything else, as he immediately fell off the hook.

The pace of the Dutchman was hellish, the group had been reduced to a dozen units.

It seemed like Roglic's moment, as it was Froome's time when his last man destroyed what was left of the platoon.

But it wasn't.

Pogacar, with time lost after Friday's stage, anticipated the presumable attack from his compatriot and started strongly.

Roglic followed him, also Quintana, but neither collaborated too much, despite the fact that

to maintain his position from behind.

Pogacar attacked again and the script was repeated.

At the third time, the young Slovenian finally managed to detach himself from the rest and make his way, before the passivity of a Roglic who limited himself to marking what he considers his main rivals, apparently Quintana and Bernal.

The same conservative tactic, in short, that followed with Nibali in the last Giro and that Carapaz took advantage of to win the 'Corsa Rosa'.

Faced with the passivity of those who were chasing Pogacar,

, without understanding each other too much.

On the descent, after a fragile attack by Quintana on the last ramp, there was a new regrouping, which was going to be stable until the end.

Only Bardet showed ambition to try to snatch the yellow from Adam Yates, but the Englishman defended his lead.

Along with them two came Roglic, Bernal, Porte, Landa, Quintana, López, Guillaume Martin and Urán.

But he did it 42 seconds later, along with Carapaz.

And ahead, Pogacar began to recover part of the lost time, 40 seconds, half of what he had given in the previous day, presenting his candidacy to win this Tour de France.

Yes, he is 21 years old, it is his first participation and this Saturday is just the first mountain stage.

But no one gains ambition and strength, apparently so far, it seems that neither.

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