Kämna frustrates the redemption of Ineos in a new Calvary for Bernal

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Bradley Wiggins, the man it all started with, now a television commentator, was sharpening knives Monday to settle scores with the team that gave him everything.

The winner of the 2012 Tour said that Ineos' problem on this Tour is that it had lacked "an experienced head to put serenity".

He wondered why the team

, when he could have done the same job as Tom Dumoulin as Primoz Roglic's lieutenant and assumed leadership if, as had happened, Egan Bernal faltered.

And he claimed, incidentally, that Chris Froome, who was his gregarious rebel, had earned the "right" to be in the Tour lineup.

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Fishtailing still

at the Grand Colombier and the subsequent dismissal of the Ineos for the goal of winning the Tour, made in seven of the last eight editions.

And especially in the United Kingdom, where the most purists did not understand the 'debritanization' of the team (only the wheeler Luke Rowe has attended the Tour) in favor of the young stars, Bernal, Carapaz and Sivakov and now they criticize it fiercely .

You know, the results rule and have turned out to be, so far, the worst in the history of the squad since 2011.

In the medium and long term,

will have to decide whether to alter the props of his new project, in which Thomas may no longer be there and surely he loses Froome, or to alter course again, something that seems difficult.

But there's still a week left on the Tour and what Ineos is concerned about is turning the situation around immediately.

He can no longer fight for victory, not even for the podium, but he will have to fight in another way, do what he never felt the need to do, adapt to circumstances on the fly.

Bernal, with the sprinters

And that's what he wanted from the first day after the sinking, although not with Bernal.

The Colombian, in a mid-mountain day in which the favorites granted each other a truce until the last two kilometers (in which

, lived constantly at the tail of the peloton.

Alone, without companions, as if imposing penance.

But the most surprising came when the road turned uphill and the reigning Tour winner relented with the sprinter group, fueling the feeling that he could quit at any moment.

He didn't, so common sense dictates that he was just looking to waste time confirming he's not a threat to the overall and integrating himself into a breakout in the days to come in the Alps.

Her smile, with her tongue hanging out, at the camera that followed her, seemed to corroborate that she had much more gas than she was showing, only that this Tuesday was not the day to test it.

Now he is more than 18 minutes away in the general classification and he is no longer a concern for anyone.

A lesser evil if he does indeed try in the next few days, which adds one more incentive to this Tour.

"I suffered all day with

and then my knee was burned," he said afterward.

Truth or bluff?

We will have to see it.

The escape

While Bernal closed the peloton, his team was already launching its new way of approaching the race.

Among the 23 components of the day's break, three men from Ineos,

, all of them, for different reasons, with very discreet (or downright bad) performances so far in the race.

An escape with two other Spaniards, Erviti and Verona, and names with pedigree, such as Alaphilippe, Reichenbach, Barguil ...

The British team's tactic was the same as it had always been, only in 'mini' size, adapted to a breakout.

Amador, arrived at the first-rate port where the stage was to be decided, imposed a strong rhythm that began to dismember as a group.

Then Sivakov gave continuity to the effort and finally Carapaz launched the announced attack.

There were 26 kilometers to go and only the Ecuadorian,

remained standing

.

It was then that the plan failed and frustration returned to invade the Ineos.

Kämna launched his attack on the last ramps of Saint Nizier du Moucherotte and Carapaz now ran out of energy to react.

The German from the Bora, after a last third ascent, already saw her at the finish line.

Kämna thus achieved his second victory as a professional, after the one achieved exactly a month ago at the Dauphiné.

A promising time trialist in the sub'23 category, he has become a competitive and interesting climber at the age of 24.

A great joy for another team, Bora, whose initial plan to shine with

not going well either.

Redemption was for them.

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