A last smile in front of the camera at the foot of the Granon, then the Calvary.

And a lesson: Tadej Pogacar is human.

On Wednesday, the Slovenian handed over his whistling superman costume on the line - and the yellow jersey - to Jonas Vingegaard.

On arrival, the contrast is striking between the Dane who wastes no time eliminating toxins on his home-trainer and Pogi, three minutes late, slumped on his machine before downing a bottle of Sanpé.

Between the two, General Romain Bardet's new 2nd spits his lungs out on the side of the road.

Everyone digests the stage as they can.

And say that we have to leave after that.

In the mixed zone, Jonas Vingegaard has modest success.

He did not steal it, quite the contrary.

It was he who knocked out his rival on the final climb and went to get Bardet and Quintana, who were also very strong.

But the Dane knows he owes a lot to his teammates, who attacked their loose target on the slopes of the Telegraph – a little more and UAE filed a complaint for moral harassment.

We counted, between Roglic and Vingegaard, that's five, six accelerations in total, and as many efforts to provide for Pogacar. "The whole team was great, especially Primoz, greeted Vingegaard at the microphone of France TV .

He was one of the leaders and he did everything to help me.

He's a great runner.

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A plan prepared months ago

Not to mention the royal descent of Wout Van Aert's Galibier to bring this same Roglic back to the yellow jersey group to allow the Slovenian from the Jumbo to plant a last banderilla on the vacillating beast.

A tactical masterpiece thought up "a few months before the Tour" which already made its main beneficiary salivate two days before, during the rest day, his only regret being not having been able to share it with us, but you understand, secret-defense is secret-defense.

"That was the plan," Steven Kruijswijk told France TV after the 11th stage.

We realized during our reconnaissance that it would really be the right stage for that.

Afterwards, we didn't know what legs we would have.

They were good, and so we hardened from the Galibier.

We did a lot of work today.

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Tomorrow we will have to go back to coal.

Breath found, Tadej Pogacar did not completely lose his smile when greeting the man who has just stripped him of his most precious possession, and giving him a little pat on the thigh, as if to say: "I hope you're ready, guys, tomorrow it's my turn."

“Fights like today, we want more.

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