Clearly beaten vingegaard on the last climb with peaks of 15%. For the world champion a great demonstration of superiority even without Almeida, involved in a fall at almost 70 km/h in the final
Pogacar, Pogacar. On the Mur of Brittany the world champion Tadej Pogacar clearly beats Jonas Vingegaard on top of the climb that is called the Alpe d’Huez of Brittany: 2 km at 6.9% average and peaks of 15%. Then Onley, Gall, Jornson, Evenepoel and Vauquelin at 2 “. Bis for the Slovenian after the victory in Rouen when he passed Van der Poel. And on the podium Pogacar takes off the world championship to return to wearing the yellow one. The numbers are phenomenon: 101th career victory, 19th stage on the tour and 42nd yellow jersey. Van der Poel reaches 1’20” Fans and on the wall, where he won in 2021 in front of Pogacar, closes the experience in yellow for this tour. To Pogacar another total demonstration of strength, even without Almeida, heavily fallen 5 km from the arrival downhill with Buitrago and Haig to almost 70 per hour. Tadej starts a first time at 1700 meters, 32 per hour on the slope of 11%. It remains with Evenepel and Vingegaard, a show. Slowdown, Pogacar is waiting for the return of his partner Narvaez, who again raises the rhythm: then Tadej takes 300 meters from the arrival and Vingegaard cannot even go out of his wheel, if not right on the line. Speed: Tadej starts at 45 per hour and closes at 54 km/h. The new ranking sees Pogacar in yellow jersey with 54 “on Eventapoel, 1’11” on Vauquelin and 1’17 “on Vingegaard. And at this point, considering the route, only with the escape of some supporting actor could leave the yellow jersey: now two sprints and then on Monday an uphill arrival on the central massif to Le Mont Dore. Pogacar gives a tremendous impression of strength and concentration:
CHARM
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Brittany, cradle of French cycling. Hundreds of thousands of people on the roadside and along the Mur of Brittany. At the first step is Simon Yates, the winner of the Giro d’Italia, to make the pace for Vingegaard and close on the latest fugitives. Then Wellens Gregario di Pogacar, then still Visma: clash between battleships at an impressive rhythm uphill. The panorama is extraordinary, the Breton flags in the wind. The party for Bernard Hinault, has passed for Yffiniac, the country of the last French winner of the tour in 1985. And Breton is also David Lappartient, president of the UCI, the international Federciclo, who in Kigali at the World Cup in Rwanda will be reconfirmed by acclamation for the third consecutive mandate.
PLAN
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And tomorrow comes the day of Jonathan Milan? Stage 8, Saturday 12 July, Saint Meen Le Grand-Laval (Espace Mayenne), km 171.4. Difference in height 1700 meters, for sprinters, a star. There is a climbing of 900 meters 16 km from the arrival, but this is one of the easiest stages of the tour. It will certainly flee, even if the final straight lies slightly upwards. He takes a breath after seven very intense days and is an opportunity for Jonathan Milan, after the second place in Dunkerque behind Merlier. Then there will be another possibility on Sunday in Chateauroux, renamed Cavendish City: here in 2008 there was Mark Cavendish’s first victory, which in 2024 passed the Merckx record with 35 stages on the tour.
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