The first stage of the 2022 Tour de France ended, with victory for Yves Lampaert, who beat the favorites Filippo Ganna and Wout van Aert, while the favorites focused on their fight.
Here are five takeaways from the day, a 13.2km time trial in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Pogacar, moral blow
It’s not a surprise, but Tadej Pogacar was the best in the time trial of the men who will fight for the general.
The current Tour champion stopped the clock in 15 min 24 seconds, He did not make abysmal differences, but that counts for what is coming. It is like a first blow that it gives.
Leading man of the UAE Emirates, he finished well, because in the first part he lost second. In the end, he beat Jonas Vingegaard by 8 sa, Primoz Roglic by 9 sa, Geraint Thomas put him 18 s and with reference to Daniel Martínez, since he already put 37 s and Nairo Quintana surpasses him by 42 s.
Daniel, it went well
The Colombian from the Ineos team set a time of 16 min 01 s. The cyclist from Soacha, Cundinamarca, loses by 37 s with Pogacar, which indicates that the Slovenian put 2.4 s per kilometer.
Martínez, national champion of the specialty, yields 28 s with Roglic, 19 s with his partner Thomas, 21 s with Yates and 29 s with Vingegaard, a good stretch for him.
Although he goes to the clock, because with those great specialists he must lose, but the difference is in accordance with what is expected of him, for his strength, which is the mountain.
nairo, sensational
It is hardly ever said that Nairo in one of these stages. He has been one of the best in his history, because he lost by 5 s with Martínez, in great effort.
Quintana has aspirations to get on the podium this time and for that the fight against the clock was very good. He loses 42 s to Pogacar, 34 s to Vingegaard, 35 to Roglic, 24 s to Thomas and 27 s to Yates.
It is a good start if you analyze that he gave 3.2 seconds per kilometer with Pogacar, the best time of the great favorites to the crown.
Uran, in debt
Rigoberto Urán’s time was not good. At the finish he left a time of 16 minutes 31 seconds, far from his best results in this kind of effort.
Urán comes from covid, he retired in the last Tour of Switzerland, He was hardly able to train before facing the Tour, so the result is normal, but it harms him.
He already loses 1 min 07 s with Pogacar, Roglic leads him by 58 s, Thomas beats him by 44s, Daniel beats him by 29s and Nairo by 35s.
And the others?
Vingegaard came out stronger. After Pogacar he is the best of the candidates to win the competition. With the Slovenian he loses only 8 s, he beats his partner in the Jumbo Visma Roglic by a second.
And regarding the current champion of the Vuelta a España, he was on his own, although he was expected closer to Pogacar. Already the winner of the Tour in the last two editions takes 9 s, little, but it’s 9 seconds, but he beats Thomas, Yates and Daniel Martínez.
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Lisandro Rengifo
Editor of THE TIME
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