Jumbo-Visma's dominance in this Tour de France was so extreme that Jonas Vingegaard slowed down in the last kilometer of Saturday's time trial to Rocamadour and handed the stage win to teammate Wout Van Aert. In a Tour of deja vu, this was a very refreshing occurrence.

Van Aert's victory gave Jumbo Visma six wins in the race. On Sunday evening in Paris, Vingegaard was crowned Tour champion and crowned the mountain champion. Van Aert will wear the green jersey and will also be awarded the red dossard as the race's most combative rider.

Given the history of the sport, the race, and the team that emerged from the ashes of the infamous Rabobank project, it is only natural to look at this supremacy and ask the glaringly obvious question.

Vingegaard grew up at a time when Danish cycling was asking itself about doping in the golden generation of the 1990s. One would have expected such questions to be asked at the Tour winner's press conference on Saturday evening.

"We are completely clean. 'None of us have taken anything illegal. I think the reason we are so good at what we do is because of the preparation we do. We take our high altitude camps to the next level and it's all about the materials, the food, the training. I really think this team is the best. So you can trust us."

A few minutes later, Van Art, Vingegaard's stablemaster, sat in the same chair and gave a less appropriate response to a similar question. His love of ultra-combat, it seems, is not limited to riding his motorcycle.

"I don't want to answer this question. It's a shitty question. Every time someone wins the Tour, this question comes back to me," Van Aat complained.

In his second Tour, Van Aat won three stages in three different ways. He also wore the yellow jersey for four days and crushed the peloton several times in early attacks. The pinnacle of his all-out sprint came on stage 18. Van Aat attacked from the 0km marker, formed an early break, and made the decisive turn to drop Tadey Pogachar (UAE Team Emirates) on the final climb to Otakam.

"So now that we are performing at this level we have to defend ourselves. 'We've worked hard for this and cycling has changed. We've worked hard for this and cycling has changed. We have to pass the controls at all times of the year, not just at the Tour de France. It didn't come from nowhere."

Vingegaard, who finished second a year ago, may not have come out of nowhere this July, but the scale of his progress since turning pro at Jumbo-Visma in 2019 is remarkable. In that debut season, for example, he finished 22nd out of 57 starters at the Danish time trial championships, nearly three minutes behind Kasper Asgreen at 39.8 km.

On Saturday, in a time trial of similar distance, Vingegaard finished second behind Van Aert with an average speed of 50.559 km/h, but ahead of riders like Pogachar, Geraint Thomas, and time trial world champion Filippo Ganna

"I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it.

"It's the aerodynamics," Vingegaard replied when asked to compare the two performances. Of course I think I'm a better rider now, and I'm pushing more watts." We did a lot of testing in the wind tunnel and on the track. We really worked on this and it has paid off."

The team also had a good time at the track.

When Vingegaard sat in the Gramat press room on Saturday evening, one of the reporters in front of him was Michael Rasmussen, the last Dane to wear yellow in the Tour for the Dutch team. When Rasmussen first returned to the Tour in his current role in 2015, he was asked about his controversial tenure in yellow. After repeatedly denying doping, Rasmussen was eventually dropped from the race after it was revealed that he had lied about his whereabouts to avoid doping tests.

"In all my working life, I have never heard a rider say 'yes' to the cameras rolling during a race.

"It's a futile question,

perhaps, but one worth asking all the same.