A full 30 years after Laurent Jalabert took his first and only Grand Tour victory in the 1995 Vuelta a España, France’s quest for a successor to ‘Ja-ja’ continues. So far when it comes to outright triumphs in cycling’s toughest stage races, the search has proved fruitless.
Now a TV and radio commentator after retiring in 2002, Jalabert recently ran the rule over the current, lengthy, drought on Grand Tour winners in his home country for Spanish sports daily MARCA.
But, as Gaudu warned in an interview with L’Équipe, “We will have to see who’s there at the startline. If there are riders like Pogačar, [Primoz] Roglič, [Jonas] Vingegaard or [Remco] Evenepoel, that will be complicated.”
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