The Plunters had a third opportunity to illustrate this Thursday, July 10! After a time trial dominated by Remco Evenepoel (Sudal Quick-Step) and the takeover in the general classification of the ogre Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), the peloton of this 112nd Tour de France was heading today to Vire, with the sequence of the Côte de Vaudry (1.2 km at 7.1 %) and the small final wall in Vire (750 m at 8.9 %) in the last four kilometers. On arrival, it was the escape that went to the end, for the first time in this Tour de France, with the impressive victory Ben Healy (EF Education-Easypost), which has ahead of the United States champion, Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek), and the Australian Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling Team). The leader in the race for Bayeux, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), has lost its leader tunic after this stage, for the benefit of Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), for a single second. The Slovenian world champion spoke after this 6th stage of the Tour de France 2025.
Video – Tadej Pogacar did not really understand the Tactic Visma Thursday
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“The objective is to spend as little as possible …”
The stage winner in Rouen said: “Visma tried I don't know what, but they gave everything, so we just followed our plan. At the start, two hours super fast, then wondered if we were going to participate in the stage or not, but we decided not to spend balls: Nils Politt, Marc Soler and the rest of the team. Then Visma arrived in the last two ribs by giving everything they could. Lose time, and Visma may have given me the yellow jersey today. Standing legs again for the second and third weeks, so what we did today was really good on our part “concludes Tadej Pogacar when this 6th stage arrived.
During an interview with Slovenian radio Val 202the world champion added a layer on the strategy of the team of his rival. “”I don't know which tactic they used at Visma | Lease A Bike, but try to put two runners (Simon Yates and Victor Campenaerts, editor's note) in the breakaway seems to me to be a loss of energy. Even this final sprint was useless. They imposed a very high pace in the penultimate rise, and in the last, then Matteo Jorgenson launched the sprint. I know they are behind, but what they did today was absolutely ridiculous. They may have been a little lost after the time (laughs). But yes, maybe they were trying to keep the yellow jersey. But I don't care. I don't mind driving with the yellow jersey“, He concluded, very critical.
