The Tour de France faces this Saturday the penultimate stage of this edition between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadour, 40 flat kilometers to the clock, in which the cyclists will go to the bottom and in search of their own goals.
Jonas Vingegaard is the leader, he has Tadej Pogacar at 3 min 21 s, and should have no problem defending that condition.
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Geraint Thomas is third overall at eight minuteswho is not uneasy either, because the fourth is followed at three minutes and 05 seconds, David Gaudu.
the difference is little
The battle is between the fifth, sixth and seventh, whose positions they have, today, Nairo Quintana, Lous Meintjes and Aleksandr Vlasov, respectively.
The differences between them are minimal for the extension of the route, since they are 40 kilometers on flat terrain.
Nairo defends himself against the clock, he is not a specialist, but he does not have everything with him this Saturday. He beats Meintjes by just eight seconds and Vlasov by 35 seconds.
With the South African rider he has only faced the clock once, it was in the first stage of this Tour, when in 13 km beat the Colombian by 14 seconds.
And if that progression is followed, then it is most likely that he will displace Quintana, although that will depend on the strength they have at the time of the day, because the difference is not much, but it exists.
Vlasov is the one who has everything to win. Not only does he have Nairo only 35 seconds away, but he is separated from Meintjes by 27 seconds.
I pray to the Virgin
Vlasov and Nairo have seen each other on this type of stage on two occasions. The first in the past Paris Nice in 13.2 km, in which the Russian surpassed him by 18 seconds and in the first fraction this time of the Tour he beat him by 46 s, in only 13.4 km.
“I am punished. Let’s do a good time. We will make a good message and recover fully from departure to arrival. Well, tomorrow (Saturday) is, as we say, little virgin, little virgin, leave me there…”, said the boyacense cyclist.
And I add: “The goal is to defend fifth place. The others are very strong and we are going to try to have a good stage”.
In light of this statistic, Nairo will have to lose fifth place with Vlasov, he would move to seventh, while Meintjes must remain in sixth place.
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