Tour de France stage 13 - Pogacar stretches lead on time trial

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Date: 17:26 BST
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Wow! I didn't think it would be possible in this day for a GC contender to overtake Cavs stage wins record, but he could achieve that before he turns 30...just insane.
Shrey, London
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Date: 17:19 BST
Title: It's been like fairytale - Pogacar
Content: Tadej Pogacar is the current road world champions and now looks on course for a fourth Tour de France win, and he's still only 26.
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Date: 17:17 BST
Title: General classification after stage 13
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Date: 17:05 BST
Title: Post
Content: Tadej Pogacar on whether he's surprised by his lead: "Today I decided to go without radio. The tactic was all out from the beginning to the top so I was relying on the timers at the time-checks. At the first one I saw that I was also five seconds in green and this gave me motivation.
"The second one was bigger so I knew I was in a good place and I would have a good time trial.
"Of course, I was thinking not to blow up in the first part. I almost did in the end but maybe in the last two-three kilometres I took a deep breath, reset a bit and dropped a bit of the power.
"I knew that the last kick is super, super steep and I wanted to come to the last part still with somewhat good legs."
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Date: 16:59 BST
Title: Post
Content: Tadej Pogacar on his choice of bike: "This was the biggest decision to make, which bike to use. We're racing on road bikes for most of the year, 99% of the time, so in the end we did the calculations.
"If you cannot push as much on a TT bike than you can on a road bike, I decided to be more comfortable, the way I was riding the past 12 stages with the same bike. In the end it all worked for me."
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Date: 16:50 BST
Title: Stage 13 results
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Date: 16:43 BST
Title: Post
Content: Stage winner and race leader Tadej Pogacar: "I'm super happy. This time trial was a big question mark already for me from December.
"I wanted everything to be perfect and the team delivered for me to be on the top.
"I started the day good, had an easy day in the morning and then nice preparation. From start to finish I was targeting the mountain and tried to smash it as much as possible.
"I almost blew up in the end but I saw the timer at the top and it gave me an extra push because I saw that I was going to win."
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Date: 16:38 BST
Title: Post
Content: Tadej Pogacar has claimed his fourth stage win of this year's Tour and become the youngest rider to claim 21 Tour stage wins.
Mark Cavendish set the outright record last year with 35 and Pogacar is already more than halfway to beating the Manx Missile's total.
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Date: 16:30 BST
Title: Pogacar wins stage 13 to stretch overall lead
Content: Tadej Pogacar claims victory on the mountain time trial, crossing the line in bang on 23 minutes.
That's 36 seconds quicker than Jonas Vingegaard, his main rival for the GC title.
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Date: 16:29 BST
Title: Post
Content: Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
But Tadej Pogacar will stretch his lead over Jonas Vingegaard in the GC standings.
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Date: 16:29 BST
Title: Post
Content: Leading time: Jonas Vingegaard - 23mins 36secs
Jonas Vingegaard has gone past Remco Evenepoel on the final climb. What a boost as he aims to hang on to second place.
The Dane betters Primoz Roglic's time.
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Date: 16:28 BST
Title: Post
Content: Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Jonas Vingegaard can now see Remco Evenepoel up the road.
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Date: 16:27 BST
Title: Onley to climb to fifth in GC
Content: Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Oscar Only is currently fifth fastest, 29 seconds quicker than Kevin Vauquelin, which is enough for the British youngster to leapfrog him to fifth in the GC standings.
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Date: 16:25 BST
Title: Lipowitz goes second fastest
Content: Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Florian Lipowitz has now crossed the line, 35 seconds slower than his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team-mate Primoz Roglic to go into second.
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Date: 16:23 BST
Title: Post
Content: Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Looks like Remco Evenepoel has had an issue with his chain. He's had to slow down and shuffle it back on while still on motion.
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Date: 16:22 BST
Title: Post
Content: Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
But it doesn't look like Primoz Roglic will hang on as Tadej Pogacar is flying.
He's the quickest at the second time-check too, 23 seconds quicker than Jonas Vingegaard and 52 quicker than Roglic.
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Date: 16:19 BST
Title: Roglic gains the lead
Content: Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Luke Plapp is finally tipped out of the hotseat.
Primoz Roglic goes 38 seconds quicker for the best time yet.
Update:
Date: 16:18 BST
Title: Get Involved - Is this year's Tour already over?
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Agreed, Visma need something special - even in the Giro Yates profited from the leaders marking each other out of the race, but there's no one anywhere near Pogacar so it's hard to see even something like that happening in the tour. Pogacar is just too strong!
Lawrence
Update:
Date: 16:16 BST
Title: Post
Content: Leading time: Luke Plapp - 24mins 58secs
Felix Gall crosses the line and narrowly misses out on the top three so far.
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Date: 16:13 BST
Title: Post
Content: Leading time: Luke Plapp - 24mins 58secs
Tadej Pogacar has reached the first time-check the quickest today.
Remco Evenepoel was five seconds slower, with Jonas Vingegaard a further three seconds back.