Jonas Vingegaard wins and with him the game of biking – Muricas News

On the finish got here the query that many are nonetheless asking themselves given the photographs from the Tour de France 2022, which discovered its finale on Sunday in Paris with the stage victory of Belgian Jasper Philipsen. Jonas Vingegaard was requested earlier than the ultimate chord of the most important biking spectacle on this planet whether or not every little thing was going proper with him and his dominating staff, Jumbo-Visma.

So the Dane spoke: “We're completely clear. All of us. I can communicate for the entire staff. None of us take something forbidden.”

Sentences like these have been extra frequent in biking up to now, however the half-life was typically moderately brief. May the Tour de France actually have been efficiently contested with none prohibited aids? And the way can a lowlander from Jutland, the place the best “mountain” measures simply 173 meters, out of the blue grow to be a summiteer within the hardest bike race on this planet?

Skepticism is acceptable, however the presumption of innocence additionally applies and a have a look at what has improved in biking lately – particularly in relation to doping. There has lengthy been a brand new technology of pros who can convincingly convey that there was a change in considering. Widespread manipulations, as they have been the order of the day a while in the past, are literally hardly possible. Nevertheless, there'll all the time be remoted circumstances.

An excellent feeling stays

And so a very good feeling stays from this Tour de France. The sporting performances proven have been thrilling, there was hardly a day on which one of the best leisure was not supplied. After all, regardless of all the passion, the drivers shouldn’t be forgotten both, so many discovered the race, which was one-sidedly aimed on the biggest doable spectacle, not all the time within the pursuits of the protagonists.

This tour was characterised by the grandiose duel between total winner Vingegaard and his predecessor Tadej Pogacar, a duel that requires a repetition subsequent yr after which presumably even turns into a triel when the Colombian Egan Bernal is hopefully in one of the best of well being once more.

Nevertheless it wasn’t simply the combat on the prime that captivated the crowds. There was additionally a Wout van Aert who proved to be essentially the most full rider of this tour, taking victories within the flat, time trials and virtually even within the excessive mountains.

And the Germans? Had Simon Geschke, who virtually did one thing historic and gained the mountain jersey. The Bora-hansgrohe staff positioned fifth within the total standings with Alexander Wlassow and had one of the crucial aggressive professionals in the entire peloton in Lennard Kämna.

Maximilian Schachmann additionally made it to Paris. Even earlier than the beginning, the Berliner requested a query that clearly considerations many German drivers: “Why are so many individuals so skeptical about our sport today?”

The reply lies up to now, however in some unspecified time in the future it needs to be allowed to relaxation. At the moment’s drivers deserve that as a result of – and to place it in Schachmann’s phrases: “After all our efficiency is excessive. However we don’t do something completely different day by day.” And that was actually large sport up to now three weeks.