Tadej Pogacar achieved victory this Saturday at Pla d’Adet. It is on fourteenth stage of the Tour de France, one of the main days of the race, at the start of the Pyrenees. The Slovenian launched a deadly attack on the final climb, winning the stage and He was 43 seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard.
This is for restore the morale of the past days and to shine his yellow jersey in the general classification. The Slovenian widened the gap with all his rivals a good move by the UAE Emirates teamwhich gave way to Adam Yates so that he could launch his leader when the expected attack came.
An Emirates leader who is also a bit more of a race leader. With a difference to Vingegaard, 39″ at the finish line and a 4″ bonus over the Dane, Pogacar increases its profit in the general classification to 1:57 with leader Visma-Lease a Bikewhich comes second to the front Remco Evenepoel, who is 2:22 behind.
This is a very difficult phase, 151.9 kilometers between Pau and Saint-Lary-Soulanwith the high end in Pla d’Adet after difficult climbs before the myth Tourmalet already Hourquette d’Ancizan. These two are fixed without the movement of men in the general classification, but with a UAE that tightened the race waiting for the final climb.
The strategy has been great in the lead group, who took on the burden of controlling breakaways from the peloton for the better part of the day. At the end of the day, it was to move Yates as the advance guard of the Slovenian attack, who reached his wheel and found the strength to continue alone and face victory. This was Pogacar’s second appearance in this Tour, the thirteenth of his career and the seventy-ninth victory of his record.
Although above all, the victory in which he returned the moral blow of days gone by to Vingegaard and with those who ask for stripes before the difficult days to come. The most immediate, in fact, on Sunday itself, with another day in style between Loudenvielle and Plateau de Beillewith another high finish in a special category port after the first four: Peyresourde, Menté, Portet-Aspet and Agnes. Furthermore, with 197.7 kilometers. In other words, another very difficult day that shows that this Saturday’s episode, while important, does not mean anything.
Many battles were expected for the escape and, in fact, the attacks followed each other from the beginning. The peloton fended off several breakaway attempts in the first kilometers, where men like Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPsost) and Tobias Johanne tried to break in. Enric Mas (Movistar) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin) also moved from the start.
But Van der Poel with another movement, Arnaud de Lie (Lotto), Cédric Beullens (Lotto) and Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) managed to open a small gap that gradually widened. Later Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), Oier Lazkano (Movistar), Kévin Vauquelin and Raúl García Pierna (Arkea) and Magnus Cort Nielsen (Uno-X) arrived to join him. arrange road escape in Tourmalet.
The attacks did not stop from the rear, which ended up building up last escape of eighteen cyclists. Among them, Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos-Grenadiers), David Gaudu (Groupama), Rui Costa and Ben Healy (Education First), Louis Meintjes (Intermarché-Wanty), Oier Lazkano (Movistar) and Raúl García Pierna (Arkéa) . The group managed to open a slightly higher margin four minutes before the first giant of the day.
From the calm in Tourmalet to the storm in Pla d’Adet
because the Tourmalet arrived. They expected nineteen kilometers of climbing at a very difficult average of 7.4%. UAE Emirates led the way up the peloton and once again narrowed the gap. Without forcing more than necessary, he reduced them little by little, above all, he reduced the main group. Ahead, at the battle of Tourmalet, Lazkano left one of the moments of the day after being crowned first one of the most legendary ports in cycling history.
The leading group, however, was reduced to ten runners, as a peloton with a constant pace was maintained on the second climb of the day, in Hourquette d’Ancizanone second of 8.2 kilometers at 5.1%. Marc Soler was in charge of taking the shooting responsibility to become more and more throughout the year the remaining runners. Also before the leading group was reduced, with Lazkano again the crowning first and leading the race with Ben Healy, Louis Meintjes, Michael Kwiatkowski and David Gaudu.
Gaudu and Healy were left alone at the front at the start of the final climb to Pla d’Adet, from 10.6 kilometers to an average of 7.9%. Although the Education First runner quickly released his escape partner. In fact, Lazkano reached the height of the French. in the back, Adam Yates moved to the UAE so other teams could come in and shootbut Remco Evenepoel did not allow his partner Jan Hirt to follow him. This forced Visma-Lease of the Bike had to take the reins of favored groups.
Although Yates’s movement was only a warning: a moment later, 4.6 kilometers from the end of the stage, Pogacar unleashed a devastating attack which neither Vingegaard nor Evenepoel could answer. The two exchanged a distance that brought the Slovenian up, reaching the height of his teammate so that he could serve as a shuttle. Vingegaard, who had his own rhythm like the previous days, tried to minimize the damage, but This time Pogacar, a few meters ahead, had another change.
In a distant battle, Vingegaard left Evenepoel, but he saw a Pogacar that went away who saw how the differences were maintained at first around twenty seconds, but also how the Dane struggled to finish in the last part so it almost doubled. Thirty-nine seconds separated the two at the finish line, with ten bonus seconds for Pogacar and six for Vingegaard to go. the Slovenian got the last in forty-three seconds. Evenepoel came in 1:10 behind Pogacar, 1:16 overall with bonuses.
An income in which Pogacar regained control at the moral level after the eleventh stage on Wednesday. But, above all, with The Slovenian extended his lead in the general classification. Vingegaard is second here ahead of Evenepoel, but 1:57 behind the Slovenian. This one, which promised a battle the previous day, will be more of a leader in another decisive day this Sunday, though boosted by the impact blow given to the race.
Classifications
Stage 14, Pau-Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet, 151.9 km
1. Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia/UAE Emirates) 4h 01’51”
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark/Visma-Lease a Bike) at 39″ (6″ bonus)
3. Remco Evenepoel (Belgium/Soudal Quick-Step) at 1’10” (4″ bonus)
4. Carlos Rodríguez (Spain/Ineos Grenadiers) at 1’19”
5. Giulio Ciccone (Italy/Lidl-Trek) at 1’23”
6. Santiago Buitrago (Colombia/Bahrain Victorious) id.
7. Adam Yates (Great Britain/UAE Emirates) id.
8. Felix Gall (Austria/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) at 1’26”
9. Matteo Jorgenson (United States/Visma-Lease a Bike) at 1’29”
10. Derek Gee (Canada/Israel-Premier Tech) id.
General
1. Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia/UAE Team Emirates) 56h 42’39”
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark/Visma-Lease a Bike) at 1’57”
3. Remco Evenepoel (Belgium/Soudal-Quick Step) at 2’22”
4. Joao Almeida (Portugal/UAE Team Emirates) at 6’01”
5. Carlos Rodríguez (Spain/Ineos Grenadiers) at 6’09”
6. Mikel Landa (Spain/Soudal-Quick Step) at 7’17”
7. Adam Yates (Great Britain/UAE Team Emirates) at 8’32”
8. Giulio Ciccone (Italy/Lidl-Trek) in 9’09”
9. Derek Gee (Canada/Israel-Premier Tech) at 9’33”
10. Matteo Jorgenson (United States/Visma-Lease a Bike) at 10″35″
Source: La Verdad
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