The Tour de France is over, but Tadej Pogačar is still running up the score – Analysis

The Tour de France didn’t formally end on the upper reaches of the Cime de la Bonette, but it was the point where Jonas Vingegaard understood that his race was run. Like a beaten candidate on election night, the projections from stage 19 told him that he no longer had a viable path to final victory in Nice.

Vingegaard’s concession didn’t come in a private telephone call to Tadej Pogačar but in a short radio message to his Visma-Lease a Bike teammates, confirming that he didn’t have the strength to execute the plan of attack they had drawn up beforehand.