Tour de France 23, Stage 2: A Job to Do

With the Maillot Jaune on one of your teammates, it is your job to set the pace for the whole peloton, oft time all stage long.  While Tadej Pogacar is his team leader, his teammate Adam Yates is the one clad all in yellow at the back of the UAE Team Emirates line.  MIkkel Bjerg and Vegard Stake Laengen swapped turns on the front in the long slow chase of the rather strong three man break up the road.  Marc Soler was the man right in front of Pogacar clad now in the Maillot Blanc of best young rider.  At this point they were still over four minutes behind the Maillot a Pois of Neilson Powless with another 64 kilometers left to race to Saint Sebastien.  Has UAE misjudged the effort?

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TDF, Stage 21: As a Team

Yes, it is Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) who wins the Tour de France, but it could not have been done without the entire team.  And it isn't just the seven other guys on their bikes, but all of the nutritionist, trainers, maseurs, soigneurs, directors, and drivers.  So a nod to all of them and to Mikkel Berg, Rui Costa, Davide Formolo, Marc Hirschi, Vegard Stake Laengen, Rafal Majka, and the American Brandon McNulty.  Chapeau!

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Tour, Stage 2: Helping Yellow

Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE-Team Emirates) was one of two teammates tasked with helping the Maillot Jaune and their teammate, Alexander Kristoff honor the Jersey.  As a sprinter, he had little hope of being able to keep Yellow after the climbs that were being offered up today.  He could take some comfort in knowing that the only other sprinter riding as well as him was on his wheel.  Elia Vivianni (Cofidis) was proving to have brought his climbing legs to the 2020 Tour.  Well to be fair, Peter Sagan, was up the road, but then he is a bit of a hybrid sprinter.

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Binche-Chimay-Binche: Way Off the Front

It was the duo of Lars Bak (Lotto Soudal) and Vegard Stake Laengen (IAM Cycling) who got way off the front of the peloton.  The two built up over five minutes on the FDJ lead peloton on the narrow roads of Belgium.  The two may not have had much hope in holding of the peloton, but neither did they want to ride the race in complete anonymity either.

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