Misfortune stalks Vingegaard: fall and two companions less

• As in the times of Indurain Amazing data of Pogacar and Vingegaard in Mende

• General classification Pogacar, 2:22 from the lead

C'est le Tour

.

The treacherous race, the one that does not allow a single trust.

The drama changes sides the least expected day.

The leader smiled confidently, having saved the Alpe d'Huez, as well as the Mende wall, with a feeling of sufficiency in the face of all the increasingly desperate moves of

.

But on Sunday on the way to Carcassonne, a quiet day a priori, the eve of the long-awaited day of rest, hardly the arrival of the heat as a concern, from very early on it began to get entangled for the Jumbo.

His mission accomplished,

said goodbye .

Bruised since Arenberg and without options, sacrificed by the success of

, heroic on the day of Granon, where together they turned the Tour upside down and snatched the yellow from Pogacar, it was time to think about the Vuelta, always kinder for the Slovenian , looking for the fourth in a row in a few weeks.

His goodbye did not seem serious, until he advanced the stage under the dog days.

The curse of the Jumbo Visma was then unleashed, the perfect machine, unblemished until now in this Tour in which the UAE had suffered the whims of fate, the weakest team after the withdrawals due to covid of

and

, in addition to its director

.

And everything happened in the calm of the grouped platoon.

With 65 kilometers to go,

, another of his most noble gregarious, was left lying on the asphalt.

He had fallen alongside

.

Moments later he was evacuated by ambulance, with a severe blow to his right shoulder.

Suddenly, the Jumbo was left in six pieces, equaling the UAE, a real problem in the face of the inevitable Pogacar rampage in the Pyrenees to try to alleviate its 2:22 disadvantage.

Vingegaard has barely one climber left,

.

The nervousness arrived and not five kilometers later, the leader himself went to the ground along with another teammate,

(he was sore) when they were riding at the front of the peloton.

He got up quickly, nervous, overwhelmed.

He also bruised his shoulder.

"I don't know what happened. Tiejs fell in front of me and I couldn't do anything. It's cycling," admitted the Dane, who played down the blows to his left side: "I'm fine. It's been a bad day, but I'll keep fighting Paris".

prevailed in Carcassone

, in a sprint to the limit with Van Aert and

.

The Belgian from Alpecin, who a few days ago mistakenly celebrated his victory, made his debut in the Tour: he had been second or third up to eight times.

450 meters from the finish line, the adventure of Frenchman Benjamin Thomas had come to an end.

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