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a day ago
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Pogacar wins second Dauphine stage to retain lead
Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar consolidated his lead at the Criterium du Dauphine with a second consecutive stage victory in France. The reigning Tour de France and road world champion went clear 12 kilometres from the finish on the final ascent of Saturday's 132km 'Queen Stage' from Grand-Aigueblanche to Valmeinier. Advertisement Slovenia's Pogacar eventually finished 14 seconds ahead of his closest rival, Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider had taken the yellow jersey with a dominant victory in Friday's stage six and the 26-year-old now holds a lead of one minute and one second over the Visma-Lease a Bike man going into Sunday's final stage. "I launched it and maintained a good pace to the top," said Pogacar after securing his 98th career stage win, moving ahead of French sprinter Arnaud Demare for the most by an active rider. "Today Jonas was really strong. I did not want to go too deep myself. It was a super hot and long climb. Luckily, I had enough time to ease up in the last kilometres and recovered." Advertisement "Happy I could defend the jersey like this." Germany's Florian Lipowitz was third in the stage but is two minutes and 21 seconds behind Pogacar while Remco Evenepoel lost more time and is now fourth overall, a further one minute and 50 seconds back. The race, a traditional warm-up for the Tour de France, which begins on Saturday, 5 July, concludes with another mountainous stage covering 133.3km from Val-d'Arc to the Plateau du Mont-Cenis. Stage seven results 1. T Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 4hrs 10mins 0secs, 2. J Vingegaard (Den/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) +14secs, 3. F Lipowitz (Ger/Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +1min 21secs Advertisement 4. T Halland Johannessen (Nor/Uno-X Mobility) +2mins 26secs 5. R Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal Quick-Step) +2mins 39secs 6. B Tulett (GB/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) +3mins 48secs 7. E Mas (Spa/Movistar Team) same time 8. E Buchmann (Ger/Cofidis) +3mins 51secs 9. C Rodriguez (Spa/Ineos Grenadiers) same time 10. G Martin-Guyonnet (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) same time General Classification after stage seven: 1. T Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 25hrs 44mins 58secs 2. J Vingegaard (Den/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 1sec 3. F Lipowitz (Ger/Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +2mins 21 secs 4. R Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal Quick-Step) +4mins 11secs Advertisement 5. T Halland Johannessen (Nor/Uno-X Mobility) +5mins 55secs 6. P Seixas (Fra/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) +6mins 50secs 7. M Jorgenson (USA/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) +7mins 18secs 8. B Tulett (GB/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) +7 mins 24 secs 9. C Rodriguez (Spa/INEOS Grenadiers) +7mins 41secs 10. E Mas (Spa/Movistar Team) +7mins 43 secs
The Guardian
2 days ago
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- The Guardian
Tadej Pogacar tightens grip on yellow jersey in Critérium du Dauphiné
For the second straight day, Tadej Pogacar rode away from his main rivals on the final ascent as he cemented his grip on the Critérium de Dauphiné yellow jersey in Saturday's mountainous Queen Stage. 'I launched it and maintained a good pace to the top,' he said. The Slovenian had grabbed the overall lead the day before when he shot clear on the short closing climb. On the penultimate stage, a 131.7km run from Grand-Aigueblanche, Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates teammate Pavel Sivakov reduced the leading pack by setting a ferocious tempo at the front at the start of the 20km final climb to Valmeinier ski resort. With 12km to go, Pogacar upped the tempo, standing on his pedals and rocketing clear. As on Friday, only Jonas Vingegaard, his main Tour de France rival, and the young German Florian Lipowitz could respond. Vingegaard settled into a dogged pursuit. Pogacar, without rising out of his saddle again, was able to maintain an uncatchable pace. He increased his lead to as much as 30 seconds before relaxing towards the end. He cruised across the line 14 seconds ahead of Vingegaard, quivering with effort as he came home. 'Jonas was really strong – I did not want to go too deep myself,' said Pogacar. 'It was a super-hot and long climb. Luckily, I had enough time to ease up in the last kilometres and recovered. Happy I could defend the jersey like this.' Lipowitz was again third at 1min 21sec. The Belgian Remco Evenepoel, who had led the overall classification until Friday, finished fifth, as he had on Friday, losing 2:39. With one stage to go, Pogacar increased his lead to 1:01 over Vingegaard, 2:01 over German Florian Lipowitz and 4:11 to Evenepoel in fourth. For much of the stage, Vingegaard's lieutenants on the powerful Visma team launched attack after attack, but they could not shake off Pogacar, or Sivakov, either going up or down the day's biggest climb, the Col de la Croix de Fer. Pogacar said: 'We wanted to take control on all the climbs, but Visma tried with all the attacks. I was pretty happy with how Pavel and the team rode today. It was sort of defence, to not get attacked by everyone from Visma.' He complained at the way Visma had tried to drop him on the descent of the Col. 'They went a little bit dangerous in the first kilometres of the downhill,' he said. 'I didn't like that, but it's modern cycling.' As the start of the Tour de France on 5 July approaches, Pogacar beat Vingegaard to take a third stage victory in the race. It was also the 98th stage win of the Slovenian's career, breaking his tie with the French sprinter Arnaud Démare for most by an active rider. He has a chance for one more on Sunday when the race finishes with another mountainous stage, 133.3km from Val-d'Arc to the Plateau du Mont-Cenis.
BBC News
2 days ago
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- BBC News
Pogacar wins second Dauphine stage to retain lead
Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar consolidated his lead at the Criterium du Dauphine with a second consecutive stage victory in reigning Tour de France and road world champion went clear 12 kilometres from the finish on the final ascent of Saturday's 132km 'Queen Stage' from Grand-Aigueblanche to Pogacar eventually finished 14 seconds ahead of his closest rival, Denmark's Jonas UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider had taken the yellow jersey with a dominant victory in Friday's stage six and the 26-year-old now holds a lead of one minute and one second over the Visma-Lease a Bike man going into Sunday's final stage."I launched it and maintained a good pace to the top," said Pogacar after securing his 98th career stage win, moving ahead of French sprinter Arnaud Demare for the most by an active rider."Today Jonas was really strong. I did not want to go too deep myself. It was a super hot and long climb. Luckily, I had enough time to ease up in the last kilometres and recovered.""Happy I could defend the jersey like this."Germany's Florian Lipowitz was third in the stage but is two minutes and 21 seconds behind Pogacar while Remco Evenepoel lost more time and is now fourth overall, a further one minute and 50 seconds race, a traditional warm-up for the Tour de France, which begins on Saturday, 5 July, concludes with another mountainous stage covering 133.3km from Val-d'Arc to the Plateau du Mont-Cenis.
