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COL DU GRAND COLOMBIER, France: Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard hailed his rivalry with Tadej Pogacar after surviving the Slovenian’s latest attack to cling on to the overall lead of the Tour de France on the Grand Colombier mountain on Friday.
The GC battle between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar has been bubbling along nicely, and with the riders entering the Alps on Saturday we could get a picture of who is the stronger of the two. Pogacar showed excellent legs to pinch some seconds off Vingegaard atop the Grand Colombier on Friday, but the Alps are more the terrain on the defending champion. Ad The riders will scale three Cat.
The two-time Tour de France champion from Slovenia further cut into Jonas Vingegaard’s lead with a sudden acceleration near the finish of a long and brutal ascent concluding Friday's Stage 13.
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) ate into Jonas Vingegaard’s Tour de France lead to the tune of eight seconds on Friday, but the Eurosport team on The Breakaway were critical of the tactics of the team. Pogacar had fond memories of the Grand Colombier, having won there on route to Tour de France victory in 2020. Ad Vingegaard’s Jumbo-Visma team felt the Colombier would be better suited to Pogacar than the defending champion, and so it proved.
Tadej Pogacar continued to close the gap on Tour de France leader Jonas Vingegaard after a late, brutal uphill sprint in the finale of Friday's 13th stage at the top of the Col du Grand Colombier.
Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard held on to the overall lead of the Tour de France after a skirmish with Tadej Pogacar on the Grand Colombier mountain on Friday.
Michal Kwiatkowski delivered some overdue joy for Ineos Grenadiers with a brilliant solo win atop Grand Colombier on Stage 13 as Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) trimmed the gap to Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) in the yellow jersey with a blistering last-gasp attack. Pogacar swept up most of the escapees with his final flurry to take third and four bonus seconds, chiselling eight in total back on Vingegaard, to leave the gap in the overall standings at nine seconds.
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) admits Jumbo-Visma's tactics on Thursday were «strange to see» after watching his rivals throw everything at getting a rider in the day's breakaway. With Jonas Vingegaard in the yellow jersey, and three big days in the mountains to come, it was perhaps surprising to see Jumbo-Visma so committed to animating Stage 12 from the off – with Wout van Aert, Wilco Kelderman and Tiesj Benoot all enjoying sustained stints off the front. Ad Such was the unrelenting and furious nature of the start that Vingegaard was forced to ride aggressively to put out fires his team-mates could not, potentially depleting his energy stores.