Tour de Francia 2020 Counterchronic stage 18
AND Finally, on the last high mountain day of the 2020 Tour de France, they attacked Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma). Cause-effect reaction, for the first time in this race, the yellow jersey had to fight the last 25 kilometers of the stage only with a partner, the impressive Sepp Kuss.
It happened because there were attacks without fear of losing the seventh place overall. Mikel Landa (#Landism lives) attacked the Plateau des Glieres and set off the alert for the Jumbo train, which has rarely sounded the alarm in this Grande Bouclé. At 30 goal you can attack! and, in addition to leaving Roglic without Van Aert, Gesink, or Dumoulin (although they later re-enlisted in the last kilometers) who worked so that the Vitorian did not go off the radar at all times, he invited Enric Mas (Movistar) and Tadej Pogaçar (UAE) will also try.
They couldn’t, they were all hunted, but for the first time they tried and you know what? They lost nothing by trying, they all entered the goal together.
Today Mikel Landa did try and took advantage of the work of all his Bahrain, because not yesterday. A pity that it is on the last mountain stage of the Tour de France, but Mikel Landa grabbed the handlebars of his bike and attacked without looking back at the Jumbo train. Several Roglic soldiers fell in control of the Vitorian cyclist, whom they always had within the radar, but Landa attacked, with the help of Poels, Caruso and Bilbao, and the Spanish cycling fan, eager for emotions, got up from the sofa.
Cycling needs to maintain a certain level of spectacle to continue engaging so many fans of this beautiful sport and, without any doubt, and the dirt road it is a tool that helps. If there are no more attacks like the old ones, if so much electronic gadget has changed this sport, it will be necessary to recover things from the past to understand why cycling is one of the most beautiful sports in the world. It was impressive to see the passage of cyclists through the dirt section of this Thursday’s stage, until Richie Porte (Trek), who played and had to give himself a good warm-up to avoid wasting time with the favorites at the finish line, will appreciate it.
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