Dauphin and Suisse BREAKDOWN: Jumbo-Visma showed what they could do at the Dauphin and the real action in the Tour de Suisse is about to kick off. What can we take from these Tour ‘practice’ races? Spencer Martin gives us his ‘BREAKDOWN’ heading towards the 2022 Tour de France.– This article is an excerpt from the Beyond the Peloton newsletter. Sign up here for full access. –Jumbo Dauphin dominationJumbo-Visma dominated at the recent Critrium du Dauphin, getting three stage wins, holding the yellow jersey for seven out of the eight stages, and completely decimating the GC competition with Primo Rogli and Jonas Vingegaard finishing first and second in the overall with a massive gap over third-place Ben OConnor.Ben OConnor could do no moreWhile this is an important pre-Tour de France win for Rogli, the extremely strong performance of his teammate Vingegaard in the final two mountain stages raised questions in my mind about his ability to seriously challenge Tadej Pogaar, and even his status as the teams clear leader, in the coming Tour de France. Ultimately, we wont know the answer until the Tour peloton hits the stage 7 ascent of La Planche des Belles Filles, but as much as a victory can be cast as a negative, Im officially concerned about Roglis prospect for a Tour de France overall win.Could Vingegaard be Jumbo’s top man at the Tour?Meanwhile, across the Alps in Switzerland, Remco Evenepoel and Aleksandr Vlasov kicked off an intriguing GC battle while Ineos veterans Adam Yates…
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