COL DE LA COUILLOLE, France — Tadej Pogacar equaled one Tour de France mark Saturday and will likely match another Sunday. Yellow jersey-holder Pogacar edged defending champion Jonas Vingegaard at the top of Col De La Couillole to win the 20th and penultimate stage and add even more seconds to his considerable lead.
It was a fifth stage victory this month for the two-time champion, who stretched out his arms as he crossed the line before holding up his fingers to signal his number of wins.
The only other man to have won five mountain stages in one Tour was Gino Bartali in 1948. «If you told me this before the Tour, I would not have believed you,» Pogacar said. «It's out of this world actually.
I'm so happy. »[Five stages] is more than enough. One would be enough. Just the yellow jersey would be enough. But it is how it is.