The Slovenian is aiming to hammer home his recent supremacy when the pair lock in battle through the race
It was not so long ago that Tadej Pogacar was Jonas Vingegaard’s whipping boy. It came on the brutal Col de la Loze, in July 2023, when the Slovenian, dropped by another violent Vingegaard acceleration, announced wearily into his team radio: “I’m gone, I’m dead.”
By last summer, as the recent Netflix series Unchained reveals, the tables had turned. Pogacar barked angry insults at the Dane after Vingegaard refused to make the pace with him on the gravel stage around Troyes. He went on to dominate the race and win his third Tour de France by more than six minutes.
Written by Jeremy Whittle in Lille
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/04/pogacar-vingegaard-renew-tour-de-france-rivalry under the title “Pogacar and Vingegaard renew Tour rivalry in tricky and tortuous opening”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
