Isola 2000, France. With two days to go till the top of the Tour de France, Slovenian Tadej Pogacar took an enormous step in the direction of victory after successful stage 19 within the Isola 2000 ski resort on Friday.
His predominant rivals within the common classification, Belgian Remco Evenepoel and Danish Jonas Vingegaard, had been 1 minute and 42 seconds behind, in that order, and are actually greater than 5 minutes behind the yellow jersey.
The Slovenian, winner of the Tour in each 2020 and 2021, attacked with 8.7 kilometres to go. He took off like a rocket on the ultimate climb and regularly caught up with the final survivors of the day’s breakaway, till he overtook Visma’s American Matteo Jorgenson, who was second on the end, 21 seconds behind. It was Pogacar’s fourth stage win on this Tour, breaking the tie within the variety of stage wins he held with Biniam Girmay and Jasper Philipsen.
With two days to go till the end in Good, the UAE rider now has a lead of 5 minutes and three seconds over Jonas Vingegaard, winner of the final two editions of the ‘Grande Boucle’, and seven:01 over Remco Evenepoel, who’s near successful the white jersey for greatest younger rider within the race.
The Dane and the Belgian completed fifth and sixth respectively on the end line, behind Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz, who wore the polka dot jersey that distinguishes him as chief of the mountain classification.
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– 2024-07-25 03:17:48