Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) took a chunk out of Jonas Vingegaard’s Tour de France lead on Stage 13 – eight seconds to be exact – but the tactics of the Slovenian were questioned on The Breakaway.
UAE Team Emirates worked all day on the front to control the break for Pogacar, who put four seconds into Vingegaard and collected a further four in bonus seconds.
But the wisdom of that work was called into question by The Breakaway team ahead of Stage 14. Ad “[He] could have let Jumbo-Visma do all that work yesterday and [Pogacar] could have gone to the top of that climb and did exactly what he did," said Adam Blythe.
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