Does it matter whether Jonas Vingegaard has balls at the Tour de France?

While the actual GC battle is yet to properly alight, there has been a bit of a war of words in France

Jonas Vingegaard
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Adam Becket
Adam Becket

News editor at Cycling Weekly, Adam brings his weekly opinion on the goings on at the upper echelons of our sport. This piece is part of The Leadout, a newsletter series from Cycling Weekly and Cyclingnews. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. As ever, email adam.becket@futurenet.com - should you wish to add anything, or suggest a topic.

After nine days of racing at this year’s Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar of UAE Team Emirates is still decisively in the yellow jersey. His margin of 33 seconds over Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) might not be a race-winning margin - a Tour hasn’t been won by less since 2007 - but it does mean he is in control of the race.

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Adam Becket
News editor

Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling, he's happy. Before joining CW he spent two years writing for Procycling. He's usually out and about on the roads of Bristol and its surrounds.

Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.