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speaking of that doper
> "We tried everything today, but in the end, Tadej was the strongest again," Head of Racing Grischa Niermann told our camera. "If you want to gain back four minutes, you have to do it earlier in the stage and not wait for the final climb. We knew the chances weren't very high, but we just had to try, and we did."
> The Dutch team opened up the race as early as the Col de la Madeleine. "I didn't get the impression he was about to crack, but we have a plan and we're going to stick with it. You can't say after two minutes: 'We're quitting now.'"
> In the valley after that climb, Vingegaard and Matteo Jorgenson briefly refused to continue riding with Pogacar. No one wanted to ride anymore. We weren't going to continue with Pogacar on our wheel. It was better for us that the rest came back. At the end, the Col de la Madeleine wasn't a good place to attack anyway, except in the final five kilometers. It's clear that Jonas was going to try again, but you can't close the gap by four minutes there. That's why he waited until the final two kilometers of the stage.