Tadej Pogacar stays with Primoz Roglic on the long and brutal Grand Colombier climb despite Roglic having backing from four teammates on his ascent. Last year's winner Egan Bernal drops out of realistic contention.
The Tour de France boiled down to a battle between its two star Slovenian riders on Sunday as last year's winner Egan Bernal dropped out of realistic contention.Pogacar stayed with Roglic on the long and brutal Grand Colombier climb
Bernal plummeted down the standings, all but ensuring the end of a five-year streak of Tour victories by his Ineos Grenadiers team, formerly known as Team Sky."But today Bernal cracked and maybe one day myself or Primoz will crack too.Pogacar stayed with Roglic on the long and brutal Grand Colombier climb despite Roglic having backing from four teammates on his ascent.
Colombian riders started on Sunday ranked third to sixth overall behind the Slovenian duo, but all of them lost time on the 175km stage into the Jura mountains, and for two the challenge seemed over. Two more Colombian riders, Rigoberto Uran and Miguel Angel Lopez, managed to stay with the lead group and sit third and fourth in the overall standings.Bernal said he had been feeling the effects of the first of the day's three climbs, which had a gradient reaching 22 per cent in places.
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