Visma-Lease a Bike struggles to overcome Tadej Pogačar in the Tour de France, sitting 1:17 behind leader Jonas Vingegaard after 10 stages. Despite quality performance, including aggressive strategies to attack Pogačar, they fail to gain time as Vingegaard reacts to Pogačar's moves. Team morale remains high following Simon Yates’ stage victory, but concerns linger over Vingegaard’s time trial deficit. Riders Matteo Jorgenson and Sepp Kuss commit to supporting Vingegaard in the remaining stages amid unprecedented competitive tension in this year's race.
"These first 10 days have been explosive, pretty stressful. We've only had one mountain stage, but the gaps are already pretty big in the GC, so I think it's gonna be one of the hardest Tours ever," Jorgenson told reporters, including Cyclingnews, at the team bus.
With Pogačar's depleted team, Visma took over on the final inclines to Le Mont Dore but were unable to distance the world champion with several attacks, prompting him into a violent surge which Vingegaard was forced to respond to.
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