Tour de France can only be a Primoz Roglic v Tadej Pogacar showdown, Ineos in deep trouble – Blazin’ Saddles
Two hard-fought stage races over the same time period amounted to manna in the musette for cycling fans, although the final results – a commanding victory for Tadej Pogacar and a slender breakthrough win for Primoz Roglic – will have many fearing for the inevitable later this summer. Here are 10 talking points from an absorbing week of racing both sides of the French and Italian border… Ad/> Anything UAE can do, Jumbo-Visma can do better Paris — NiceRoglic wins Paris-Nice despite familiar late wobble as brilliant Yates deniedYESTERDAY AT 16:10 When UAE Team Emirates channelled their inner Gewiss and pulled off an uncanny one-two-three in the Trofeo Laigueglia at the start of the month, no one expected their clean sweep to be replicated just days later and on a far greater stage – and by their big rivals, no less.


