JB2: 2023 Tour de France Stage 16
THEMOVE
Lance Armstrong
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The time trial we witnessed will undoubtedly remain a topic of discussion for a while. Many anticipated a close battle between General Classification leaders Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. While Tadej delivered an exceptional performance, it was Jonas who achieved the pinnacle of his time trial career.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to JB Squared. I'm JB Hager, along with Johan Berniel and a, I hate to get ahead |
| 0:07.2 | of myself, but a historic time trial in the Tour de France we saw today on stage 16. We'll get |
| 0:13.5 | Johan's thoughts on the time trial today and his outlook on the top two GC contenders and see |
| 0:21.2 | what he thinks where they are and their head game and then what's going to happen tomorrow. |
| 0:27.6 | We'll get into all that on this episode of JB Squared. All right, Johan, let's start with the |
| 0:33.5 | obvious. Just one of the most dominating performances we've seen in a GC battle in the Tour de France. |
| 0:41.9 | Like, I don't even know if I want to quiz you to say, when's the last time you saw something |
| 0:47.4 | like that? Let's just let it live on its own. But wow, what a performance by Eunice Vangergo. |
| 0:54.0 | I think what's in amazing performance, what I think what everybody has surprised so much is |
| 1:00.9 | they have been so tight until now, right? So close. And it's difficult to say that today Pogaccia |
| 1:09.6 | didn't do a good time trial. I mean, he was second. He put a minute 15 or so in World Van Art, |
| 1:16.8 | who was going full gas for the win. But yet he loses one minute 38 on Eunice Vangergo. I mean, |
| 1:24.3 | I honestly, I have to be honest, I didn't see that coming at all. I thought it would be inside |
| 1:30.8 | of 22nd's difference. Me too. But you could see clearly JB that from the start and from going off |
| 1:40.2 | the ramp, there was a different vibe about those two guys. If you look at Pogaccia starting, |
| 1:49.8 | you know, he started, looked okay, straight away in the Aero bars. But then you see Vangergo |
| 1:56.6 | starting. And that's like a different animal on a bike. I timed it. And after 19 seconds to the |
| 2:05.0 | first corner, he was already almost two seconds faster than his rival Pogaccia. And that kept |
| 2:15.6 | going on. And after 7k, the first split, he was 20 seconds faster. So from there on, you could say, |
| 2:21.4 | wow, you know, to turn this around, they either have to stay equal now. And then Pogaccia would have |
| 2:26.7 | to have a great climb on the, at the end, then Vangergo not such a great climb. But at the bottom of |
| 2:31.9 | the climb, it was 50 seconds. It was 50 seconds. So Vangergo was riding like a man possessed today. He |
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