Poga\u010dar vs Vingegaard<\/p>\n
Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali\u2026 some of the best rivalries in sport have been a clash of styles, cultures and temperaments.<\/p>\n
Rocky IV was the best in the franchise because our flawed hero was pitted against an indomitable Russian, Ivan Drago, who\u2019d seemingly been built in a lab.<\/p>\n
And so it is with the latest, possibly greatest, Tour de France rivalry, between Tadej Poga\u010dar and Jonas Vingegaard.<\/p>\n
Barely a minute separates the two best Grand Tour riders of their generation across the past four Tours de France and some 320 hours of racing.<\/p>\n
That hair\u2019s breadth gap is all the more remarkable given their starkly different methods.<\/p>\n
One, Poga\u010dar, races all-year round, in the style of Merckx or Hinault, on all terrain, with a stated career goal of winning as many different races as possible.<\/p>\n
The other, Vingegaard, is from the Froome mould, honing form in carefully calibrated training camps and emerging only occasionally for strategic week-long stage races.<\/p>\n
Of the five French showdowns so far, this is easily the most eagerly awaited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poga\u010dar vs Vingegaard Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali\u2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-238929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114798169027085906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}