If the idea of the Tour de France becoming the Jonas & Tadej Show for the next five years doesn’t float your boat, you may have been relieved to note the appearance of a new young promise on le bloc at this year’s Tour de France.
Carlos Rodríguez of Ineos Grenadiers was notable for his presence in the top-five on GC that he maintained from stage five onwards, and of course his stage win.
He took that in Portes du Soleil on stage 14, with Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar far too preoccupied with battering each other senseless to notice or perhaps care as he slipped away. He wasn’t, after all, a huge threat to the two titans’ stranglehold
