The unrelenting Tadej Pogacar took back-to-back stage wins in the Tour de France, winning the first summit finish of the 2022 edition at La Super Planche des Belles Filles in the Vosges mountains
Last modified on Fri 8 Jul 2022 18.13 BST, winning the first summit finish of the 2022 edition here in the Vosges mountains and increasing his overall lead.
Behind the pair, Vingegaard’s teammate Primoz Roglic, seemingly recovered from the shoulder dislocation he suffered when taken down by a stray hay bale on stage five to Arenberg, showed a resurgence of his best form to finish third on the stage, while Geraint Thomas clung on to move into third place overall.
Among those to fall away on the steep slopes were Aleksandr Vlasov, leader of the Bora-Hansgrohe team and the American talent Neilson Powless who had started the stage placed second overall, four seconds behind Pogacar.Photograph: Getty Images But he also accepted that Pogacar was unlikely to be beaten. “If you went man to man and it was all purely physical, then no. The guy is physically better than anybody else, but the Tour is the Tour and you just don’t know what’s around the corner. Obviously Pogacar is where he was last year, which isn’t a surprise really.”
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