For the first time in his career, Tadej Pogacar has twice lost the leader jersey on the same race. Apart from this somewhat insignificant statistic, the Slovenian of the training UAE Team Emirates XRG had a good day this Monday during the 10th stage of Tour de France. If he left the yellow jersey to Ben Healy (EF Education-Easypost), the world champion was solid in the final. Harassed by the Visma | Lease a Bike in the last two ascents, Pogacar And his team reacted very well, before the Slovenian himself went to the offensive.
VIDEO – Jonas Vingegaard when this 10th stage arrives
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“The climbs were not in my opinion not enough selective”
Despite a dazzling attack, Pogacar failed to let go of his big rival Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | lease a bike). A rare thing, but that does not seem to have disturbed him. “I had very good legs and the team perfectly managed the race”he told different media on arrival. “In the end, there was no difference with Visma | Lease A Bike. They tried a lot of things during the stage, but the climbs were in my opinion not selective enough to create real deviations.”
