Tadej Pogacar outsprints Jonas Vingegaard but Dane still retains yellow jersey

Tadej Pogacar outfought Jonas Vingegaard in an uphill sprint to claim his third stage win of this Tour de France but could not shake the Dane’s grip on yellow as the pair left all other rivals behind on the road to Peyragudes.

It came down to a slow-motion sprint on gradients of up to 16 per cent at the finish, the pair exchanging blows before Pogacar’s landed, but beyond the four extra bonus seconds that came the Slovenian’s way, there was nothing to separate the top two in the general classification.

And with Geraint Thomas losing two minutes after being distanced on the penultimate climb, the Col de Val Louron-Azet, they are surely the only riders still in contention to be wearing yellow in Paris on Sunday.