Pogacar extends Tour de France lead with uphill time-trial win
AFP | Peyragudes
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Tadej Pogacar won a time trial on stage 13 of the Tour de France yesterday to extend his lead at the top of the overall standings to four minutes and seven seconds.
Jonas Vingegard and Remco Evenepoel kept their places in the overall top three, but this 10.9km time-trial triumph was defending champion Pogacar’s second crushing win in two days.
Pogacar was last down the start ramp of the 171 riders setting off from the bottom of the Peyragudes mountain.
Decked out in his overall leader’s yellow kit, the 26-year-old Team UAE rider was faster from the off despite his exertions from the previous day, when he finished over two minutes ahead of main rival Vingegaard.
By the time he finished at the Peyragudes Altiport where the opening scene of the James Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies” was shot, Pogacar was 36sec faster than Vingegaard, while Primoz Roglic was third at 1min 20sec.
Riders warmed up for the time trial wearing ice jackets to combat the sizzling 30C temperature at the foot of the climb.
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