THEY’RE THE TOP TWO favourites to take out this year’s Grand Shindig, yet their race schedules leading to said shindig couldn’t have been more different.
Before the Grand Départ in the Basque Country, defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar will have raced just once against each other. There, at Paris-Nice, The Poginator came out on top – but that was four months out from the July 1 opener in Bilbao.
Nevertheless, with a hat-trick of stage victories, it was a dominant performance by the 2020 and ’21 TdF champ in the ‘Race to the Sun’. But apart from it being held in the first
