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Pogacar leads Dauphine after dominating stage six climbs
Tadej Pogacar took the overall leader's yellow jersey at the Criterium du Dauphine with a dominant victory on stage reigning Tour de France and road world champion put in a trademark powerful surge up the climbs in the French Alps to win the stage by one minute one second from his nearest rival in the race, and the sport overall, in Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard of Visma-Lease a Pogacar, of UAE Team Emirates-XRG, now leads the general classification by 43 seconds from 26, launched one of his famous attacks - in which he seems to effortlessly power away from rivals while still seated - with seven kilometres remaining of a 126.7km stage to Combloux which contained several climbs of varying inclines."We went full gas on the first category climb - the team was super strong, all incredible today," Pogacar told TNT explained there was an added reason for wanting to finish quickly - and it involved his fiancee Urska Zigart, who is racing in Switzerland."It was a hot day and hard day and I wanted to hurry to see the finish of Urska on the Tour de Suisse," said Pogacar. "I was just in time, so all good."It was a good feeling when I attacked with all-out effort. I knew I had to pace myself after the attack, but the feeling was there, and the legs were turning. But we need to hold our horses for the Tour."Belgium's Remco Evenepoel - considered by many as the world's third best rider - lost the yellow jersey after failing to keep pace with Pogacar and Vingegaard, eventually shipping one minute 50 seconds to Pogacar on the day and now sitting fourth in the GC, one minute 22 seconds Dauphine, which takes place across the region of the same name in south-east France, is the traditional warm-up for the Tour de four times in the past 10 editions has the overall winner gone on to be victorious in the stage could feature even more explosive action, with three hugely steep hors category climbs in the French Alps to Valmeinier.
Stage six results1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 21hrs 35mins 8secs2. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 1secs3. Florian Lipowitz (Ger/Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe) +1min 22secs4. Matteo Jorgenson (USA/Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 30secs5. Remco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal-Quick Step) +1min 50ecs6. Alex Baudin (Fra/EF Education-EasyPost) +1min 56secs7. Tobias Halland Johannessen (Nor/Uno-X Mobility) +2mins 3secs8. Louis Barre (Fra/Intermarche-Wanty) +2mins 4secs9. Ben Tulett (GB/Visma-Lease a Bike) Same time10. Paul Seixas (Fra/Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale)General classification after stage six1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 21hrs 35mins 8secs2. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +43secs3. Florian Lipowitz (Ger/Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe) +54secs4. Remco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal-Quick Step) +1min 22ecs5. Matteo Jorgenson (USA/Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 41secs6. Eddie Dunbar (Irl/Jayco-AlUla) +2mins 28secs7. Louis Barre (Fra/Intermarche-Wanty) +2mins 39secs8. Paul Seixas (Fra/Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) +2mins 49secs9. Tobias Halland Johannessen (Nor/Uno-X Mobility) +3mins 21secs10. Ben Tulett (GB/Visma-Lease a Bike) +3mins 26secs
