(Courchevel) Jonas Vingegaard definitely knocked out the Tour de France during the queen stage won by the Austrian Félix Gall on Wednesday in Courchevel where Tadej Pogacar suffered a terrible failure in the Col de la Loze.
The Dane, fourth in the stage, now has a dizzying lead of 7 minutes and 35 seconds in the general classification over his competitor, still second.
Unrecognizable, Pogacar gave in 7.8 km from the summit when we had not even reached the most severe slopes.
The Slovenian conceded almost six minutes to his Danish rival on the finish line set up at the Courchevel altiport, which he crossed looking totally defeated.
“I gave up, I died,” said the winner of the 2020 and 2021 editions during his way of the cross in Loze earlier, during a radio conversation with his sports directors.
Barring an accident, Vingegaard, 26, thus takes a definitive option to win his second Tour de France in a row.
Félix Gall won the greatest success of his career, only the second after his stage victory in the Tour de Suisse in June where he made a very strong impression.
Arriving on the Tour in a team role, the 25-year-old Austrian was promoted to leader of the AG2R-Citroën team along the way in place of the too-fair Ben O’Connor.
After accompanying him in the breakaway of the day on Wednesday, he put himself at the service of Gall, whom he ideally launched into the vertiginous ramps of Loze, the roof of this 110th edition.
