The Giro d’Italia winner took a definitive and conclusive grip on the yellow jersey, with just two stages to go
In yet another display of daunting strength, Pogacar, of the UAE Emirates team, crushed closest rivals, Jonas Vingegaard of Visma Lease-a-bike and Soudal Quick Step’s Remco Evenepoel, in the high altitude passes of the Mercantour Alps. It was the Slovenian’s 10th Grand Tour stage win of 2024.This was payback for Pogacar for the past humiliations he has endured at the hands of Vingegaard and his team.
On what was labelled the “queen stage” of the race, with three ascents all over 2,000 metres, the defending champion Vingegaard, able in previous years to expose Pogacar’s weakness on the very highest climbs, was expected to flourish.Jonas Vingegaard trails in with Remco Evenepoel as they cross the finish line.
With two of his teammates, Jorgenson and Wilco Kelderman, in the six-man breakaway, the scene was set for the Dane to make his move, but nothing transpired.Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images In the aftermath of the Slovenian’s attack on the Col du Noyer on Wednesday, Pogacar was reprimanded by none other than Lance Armstrong.
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