La 7e étape de ce Critérium du Dauphiné, très attendue par les coureurs depuis le début de la semaine, s’est déroulée ce samedi. Trois cols hors catégorie étaient au menu : la Madeleine (24,7 km à 6,1 %), la Croix de Fer (22,4 km à 7 %) et Valmenier 1800 (16,2 km à 6,8 %). Près de 5000 m de dénivelé et trois passages au-dessus des 1800 m : un vrai chantier... qui a vu s'imposer Tadej Pogacar ! Intouchable, le Slovène de la formation UAE Team Emirates XRG a une nouvelle fois mis un sacré coup à tous ses adversaires, en attaquant à 12 kilomètres de l'arrivée, relégant son dauphin Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) à une dizaine de secondes, sans donner l'impression d'avoir forcé.
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00:00Hello Abano, it was all beautiful between these two boys, but the montage is just for us, in Slovakia, Tadai Kovacar.
00:10A demonstration, I wanted to say about the spectacular competition of Tadai Kovacar,
00:16with a 3rd success in the game on the list of the 15th of the S3,
00:21and also on the race in general, for the 15th of the 6th of the race,
00:26and the first thing, there is Simak, a step forward from yesterday.
00:34Oh, yeah, I mean, I couldn't follow his attack, but, to be honest, I think I did quite a good job,
00:44I just did my own tempo, didn't lose much in the end, so I think I can be happy with how things went today.
00:51You said you couldn't follow his initial attack, but was there anything different in the way you tried to respond to it today?
00:56Did you take a different sort of tactic?
00:59No, I tried to follow, and just like yesterday, I had to...
01:06Sorry, I had to slow down.
01:09But, yeah, I think I still did a very, very good performance, and I can be happy with how I did today.
01:15I could see the numbers, and it was quite good numbers, to be honest.
01:19So, again, today was just better, so congrats to him, and he really deserves to win.
01:25It's not the feeling that Taddei Pogacar is unbelievable, I mean, you can do it for the Tour de France.
01:32I mean, I hope still that this race can help me to get better, so hopefully I can be even better in the Tour than I am now.
01:40But, yeah, I mean, as you say, he was very, very strong yesterday, and also today, so he deserves to win these two days for sure, so congrats to Taddei.
