Primoz Roglic and Jum-Visma left no room for competition on the Grand Colombier stage.

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  • Pogaçar edged Roglic in the sprint after a 15th stage where the peloton was crushed by the rhythm of the Jumbo-Visma

  • Egan Bernal, the outgoing winner, exploded in the last, conceding seven minutes and all his chances in the overall standings

  • Guillaume Martin lost a lot of time again, confirming that this Tour is a long suffering for the French riders

A big blow to the head, one more.

The duo Tadej Pogacar - winner - and Primoz Roglic - still leader - again took the upper hand over the rest of the peloton in the Jura stage which led the riders to the top of the Grand Colombier on Sunday.

A mountain stage with three steep climbs concentrated on 70 terminals which promised attacks in all directions and ultimately only gave rise to big climbs.

Or rocket, we would be tempted to say.

The new top 10 overall on the evening of the Grand Colombier and before the second day of rest.

Roglic will be 40 seconds ahead of his compatriot Pogacar before the Alps.

Behind, we will play the third step of the podium between Uran, Lopez, Yates and Porte.

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The indecent Jumbo-Visma

First there was this interminable stint from Robert Gesink, yet so often on the verge of breaking up at the head of the peloton in the Col de la Biche.

Then the torture session inflicted by Wout Van Aert on whoever wanted to try to follow his rhythm from the first slopes of the Grand Colombier.

Let us take the time to dwell on the case of the Belgian.

Which runner, apart from perhaps Julian Alaphilippe, can boast today of climbing and sprinting as well as him?

And to finish, icing on the cake, this good old Sepp Kuss who jumps in the wheel of his leader when this one allowed himself to attack under the red flame.

With the exception of an anecdotal offensive by Adam Yates and the angry sprint of Pogacar, no one was able to counter the Jumbo-Visma.

The calculators rejoiced, the fans of panache a little less.

"Tadej was a little stronger"



Primoz Roglic recognizes the superiority of Tadej Pogacar in the last meters of the Grand Colombier # TDF2020



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Egan Bernal, fallen winner

The comparison is unflattering and does not see in it any inelegant subliminal message, but one cannot help but see in the seven minutes lost by Egan Bernal on the group of the favorites a reminiscence of the craving for Floyd Landis at Toussuire, he 14 years ago.

Except that the Colombian was not dressed in yellow and that he is not likely to see him again this year.

The winner of the 2019 Grande Boucle, hit in the back from the Dauphiné, therefore fails in the defense of his title.

A disaster for Ineos, a scandal, the stampede?

To say that would be to forget that from the top of his 23 brooms, the kid is still learning.

Its meteoric rise has distorted reality like some Mbappé in football or maybe Pogacar on another day, but reality is what it is, even if having more bottles doesn't always help.

Ask Quintana, 30, a package of races to his credit, also dropped very early by the Jumbo train.

If the Slovenian connection is at the top, the two biggest names in Colombian cycling, they failed on Sunday.

Nairo Quintana and Egan Bernal are let loose in the Grand Colombier!



With 13 kilometers to go, the bill will be steep for the two Colombians.

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Another bad day for cycling France

As a preamble, thank you to Pierre Rolland, who did what he could at the head of the race with the means at hand, that is to say never more than four minutes ahead of the Jumbo peloton, well determined to cannibalize the race.

The French attacked and scratched points for the mountain before being swallowed by the yellow monster in total anonymity.

We saw him a bit in the wheel of Quintana and Bernal in the Grand Colombier, but nothing glorious except this red bib of combativeness.

We will not spit on it, especially not at this time, when all the French no longer have the means to fight.

Pinot, still plagued by back pain, and Gaudu, did not exist while Guillaume Martin, not helped by a mechanical incident at the start of the final climb, ended up charging three additional minutes at the finish.

Can we move on to July 2021 and forget about that last week, please?

Technical incident for @GuilmMartin who had to change his bike.

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