Matteo Jorgenson strikes to eighth basic at Tour de France whereas supporting Vingegaard

Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) was sooner or later far from the “painful” memory of falling in want of his first Grand Tour victory on the climb to Isola 2000, nevertheless he pushed that current wound aside on stage 20 of the Tour de France to present consideration to serving to his crew chief Jonas Vingegaard on the slopes of Col de la Couillole.

Vingegaard would finish second to race chief Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workers Emirates) on Saturday, and put some additional time between himself and nearest basic rival Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), who couldn’t match the accelerations inside the remaining 3km. Pogačar added 11 further seconds to his 5-plus minute GC margin nevertheless Vingegaard strengthened his preserve on second basic, together with a further 52 seconds to take his buffer to third-placed Evenepoel to 2:50, with merely the stage 21 time trial remaining.