UAE Team Emirates Sports Manager Joxean Matxin has opened up on Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar’s impending Tour de France duel. The Slovenian is set to defend his crown next month at the Grand Boucle, but faces a revitalised Vingegaard after he won the Giro d’Italia.
Opting for a different approach to the Tour, the Visma | Lease a Bike leader took a leaf out of Pogacar’s book as he swept up five stage wins and a comfortable general classification victory in Italy, re-igniting debate about whether the Dane can challenge Pogacar’s French dominance.
Indeed, despite the workload of a full grand tour, Vingegaard has managed his workload with a lighter spring, aimed at ensuring he arrives at the Tour as fresh as possible. however, for Matxin, the lighter race days doesn’t tell the full story.
If you subtract his 21 race days (in the Giro, ed.), there aren’t practically that many race days left,” Matxin told Marca. “He rode about 35 or 36 days, of which about 15 were in races like Paris-Nice and the Volta a Catalunya.”
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