Tadej Pogacar strikes back on Stage 6 as Jonas Vingegaard sneaks into yellow at Tour de France

Discount him at your peril. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) put in a timely reminder of his class with victory in Stage 6 as defending champion Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) wrested the yellow jersey from the shoulders of Jai Hindley (Bora-hansgrohe).

Hindley’s brief stint in yellow came to an end on the second day in the Pyrenees after Jumbo-Visma pulverised the pack on the legendary Col du Tourmalet to distance the Australian and fire defending champion Vingegaard towards the race summit. Ad But the Dane did not have it all his own way as big rival Pogacar recovered from his disappointment on Wednesday to drop Vingegaard on the final climb to Cauterets and solo to the tenth Tour stage win of his career.

Tour de France'I'm coming for you Mark' — Pogacar teases chasing Cavendish's 34 stage winsAN HOUR AGO Pogacar now trails the new maillot jaune Vingegaard by 25 seconds in the general classification with Bora-hansgrohe’s Hindley the best of the rest at 1:34. Britain’s Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla) and Spain’s Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) climbed into the top five but both riders are over three minutes down on Vingegaard and very much operating in a separate sphere.

The majority of the tough 145km stage in the Pyrenees looked to be one-way traffic as Vingegaard and his Jumbo-Visma team once again placed super-domestique Wout van Aert into the breakaway before turning the screw on their rivals. After whittling down the pack on the Col d’Aspin, Jumbo-Visma threw a GC grenade on the Tourmalet as Sepp Kuss set-up Vingegaard around 4km from the summit, with only Pogacar, the white jersey, able to follow.