He didn’t attack in either of those. But are you telling me a sprint for bonus seconds is more exciting than an all-out attack with 60 km to go that results in the Tourmalet record?
Pogi never attacked before the last climb, and mostly waited for a late surge. Wow.
You know very well how race situations and tactics were played out. It was never on Pogacar to make the race hard and go long this year, and when it was, he was just completely empty on that one day.
Pogacar rode to his strengths and try to hide his weaknesses, but they caught up to him mainly to due to his prep. Yesterday, all he wanted was the stage as he's this far behind. Vingegaard also wanted to win the stage, but was somehow still too scared of Pogacar to even try once and therefore just conceded the stage which made for a boring, tactical race.
It was never on Pogacar to do anything, and yet he attacked. I think Vingegaard was too afraid to get dropped and countered, so he played it safe for god know what reasons since a suicide attack still would have given him better chances.
Boring and conservative, always looking for Pogacar. I think thats in his nature outside of those few all-in stages, and you know what, thats totally fair, but not good cycling yesterday.
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