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The Alps showdown between Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo Visma) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) on Stage 14 ended in Vingegaard having made the smallest of possible gains in the battle for the maillot jaune. On Sunday, Vingegaard and Pogacar — separated by just 10 seconds — go again. There are another five category climbs – three Cat.
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.
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.
On the French national holiday of Quatorze Juillet the race enters the Jura mountains for a summit finish on the fearsome Grand Colombier (17.4km at 7.1%) where the then defending champion Egan Bernal cracked in 2020. The sport’s landscape has changed dramatically since Bernal last rode the Tour, with Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard dominating the battle for yellow ever since. Still somewhat short of his best, Bernal will hope at least to bury his demons on what will be the first GC showdown of the second week.
Just like the proverbial London buses – you wait an eternity for one, then two come in quick succession. So it has proved for Cofidis in this year’s Tour de France – the French team now swooping for two stage wins in two weeks, having previously experienced a drought stretching back 15 years.
After Tuesday's wild ride through the Massif Central, it was a more serene day in the saddle on Wednesday as the peloton recharged with tougher tests to come. The first «tougher test» arrives on Stage 11, with five categorised climbs on the billing on a day that screams «breakaway!» Ad Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) will again take a 17-second lead over Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) into the outing, acutely aware that each passing day sees the Slovenian two-time champion grow in confidence as he fights back from the broken wrist he suffered in April.
Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal Quick-Step) has withdrawn from the Tour de France after failing to recover from injuries he sustained in a crash on Stage 4. Jakobsen went down heavily in the final on the motor-racing circuit in Nogaro, and though he has battled on since, the Dutchman has now made the decision to retire from the race.
It looks increasingly like no one is going to be able to beat Jasper Philipsen in a bunch sprint in this year’s Tour de France. For a fourth time this July, Belgium’s Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) powered over the finish line quicker than any of his rivals – this time beating a frustrated Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-AlUla) to the spoils.