“I’m sjareld”, Wout van Aert noted, when it turned out that he had conquered the green yesterday and could therefore not start in the faster time trial suit of his team.
Still, that didn’t seem to bother him too much, because at the intermediate point Wout van Aert was faster than his teammate Rohan Dennis, who had been sitting on the hot seat for so long at that time that the fabric of the seat was almost the shape of his buttocks. had accepted.
Primoz Roglic was also a threat to Dennis, but his intermission was not to make you euphoric. With a firm climb on the steep wall to the finish, the Olympic time trial champion still went under the time of his Australian teammate.
But boss above boss and the final boss today was called Van Aert. In his green suit he defended himself like a devil in a holy water font in the last meters towards the finish: in the end he was 2 seconds faster than Roglic. Good for his 2nd victory of the year and his first leader’s jersey of the year.
