Mikel Landa eats at the presidential table of the Tour

• Pinot. "There are already too many failures"

The Tour comes to the end of its first week, having already passed the Pyrenees, with almost all its cards uncovered.

The conclusions are scarce and the differences too, with

, and still without a great boss to claim his superiority over the rest, no matter how much Roglic, boosted especially by the bonuses, already wears the jersey. yellow that identifies you as the leader of the race.

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The certainties of the Slovenian are provided by his team, already indisputably the most powerful of those who have appeared on the Tour, as he has not been able in the two Pyrenean days to make the most of the immense work of his hard-working colleagues.

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it is already known that he is not a cover, but a real threat, perhaps the strongest in the mountains and already with a victory, that of this Sunday in Laruns, in the suitcase of his first Tour.

And Egan Bernal, defender of the throne, without showing his paw too much, gives the feeling of going to more and that the third week may be his.

There is still a fourth proper name after the second stage in the Pyrenees and that is Mikel Landa's.

Alava curses the stage on Friday, in which

, losing 1'21 "with the best, but he smiles when he realizes that his legs were not deceiving him, that in this Tour he has the capacity to compete with anyone and sits at the presidential table. Only Pogacar, with his attack on Saturday at Peyresourde, has been objectively better than him. Roglic and Bernal, the main wheels to watch, have accompanied him to the finish line on two days.

Guillaume Martin

The Murguía runner takes into account and concludes that, were it not for his mistake on Friday, right now he would be second overall, 21 seconds behind Roglic and with the same time as Bernal.

The reality, however, places him in 10th place, 1'42 "behind the leader, just enough time to dream, although realism may invite him to look at the podium, a goal that Guillaume Martin now sets, 1'14" faster than him so far on Tour.

So much is left of the race and so well it seems to be found that with solid arguments he has to think why not, that perhaps this year he can reach that podium that he has boldly pursued for so many years.

, on the other hand, will have to consider other challenges, after not having been able to hold out with the best on Saturday or Sunday.

For all of them, their ability to recover after an exhausting weekend will be paramount, in which the cyclists seemed to want to bury (and have succeeded) the accusations that this was being a slow and boring Tour.

Again it was

, reluctant for many kilometers to let a leak form.

Faced with the initial calm on Saturday, this Sunday between Pau and Laruns was an exhausting day from the beginning.

In the end, he managed to form a large escape that immediately, on the ascent of Hourcère, crowned 90 kilometers from the finish line, became one-man.

was left without the prize of the stage, hunted by Landa, Roglic, Bernal and the winner Pogacar with two kilometers to go, but he offered a memorable display.

This 22-year-old Swiss has been pointing out ways for some time, third last year in the San Sebastián Classical and second in the general of the Benelux Tour, but this Sunday he confirmed that he is one of the cyclists of the next decade.

He did not win the award he undoubtedly deserved at Laruns, but he will sooner rather than later.

Hero without prize

Many things happened before Hirschi's dream faded.

Or, actually, not that many.

Jumbo continued his tactic of hardening the race from afar with his fearsome train of gregarious, again including

, who is discarded to compete for the final triumph.

This was the case until the final four kilometers of the Marie Blanque, one of the greatest torture hidden in the Pyrenees.

At that moment, again repeating the script from the previous day, Pogacar launched his attack and everything was blown up.

Only Roglic, Bernal and Landa managed to keep up with the young Slovenian from the UAE.

One more day, Roglic did not take advantage of the work of his teammates to blow up the race with an attack, but to ... Well, we don't really know why.

Because he is a leader, yes, but he has burned his teammates so as not to obtain higher income than the bonuses at the top of

and at the Laruns goal.

It remains to be seen if his conservatism takes its toll in the long run.

The fantastic four of the Tour so far managed to understand each other and make their way, both on the ascent and later on the descent.

Porte and Bardet tried to join the group of the best, but a new acceleration from Pogacar just before the crown was enough for them to yield.

The four made their way, fleeing from Mollema, Martin, Bardet, Porte, Urán and Quintana, who managed to put 11 seconds on the finish line.

It is not too much, but it is already clear that this Tour will not be of great differences, although Landa right now wishes otherwise.

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