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Tour De France Champion: Tadej Pogačar Wins For The 2nd Time In A Row

Tadej Pogačar, 22, pulled ahead in the general classification standings on a rainy stage eight and never gave up the leading rider's yellow jersey, winning three of the race's 21 stages.

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Tour de France Preview: Pogacar Leads the Way Once Again

As this year’s race gets set to roll in Copenhagen, a guide for how to watch, where the race will go and why Tadej Pogacar is still the class of the peloton.

By Victor Mather

The Tour de France is preparing to roll out of the starting gate again on Friday, with this year’s race set to feature a dominant young champion, a climb up the famous Alpe d’Huez and the debut of a multistage women’s race after the men’s event concludes.

Here is what we know about this year’s edition:

How can I watch?

USA Network will show most of the stages in the United States, with NBC jumping in for Stage 2 — the first mass-start road stage on Saturday — and the final two stages. Peacock will stream every stage of the race.

Don’t live in the United States? Other networks with rights to the race include ITV in Britain, SBS in Australia, FloBikes in Canada, France TV in France, ARD in Germany. For those from Slovenia, the home country of the Tour favorite Tadej Pogacar and his countryman and rival Primoz Roglic, click over to RTV.

Where does this year’s race go?

The 2022 Tour is resuming one of its modern traditions by starting in a country other than France. This year, for the first time, that country is Denmark, which will host the first stage: an eight-mile time trial through the heart of Copenhagen that, yes, includes a pass by the Little Mermaid statue. (No, not the arriviste one , the original .) The time trial starts at 10 a.m. Eastern on Friday, a day earlier than usual for travel reasons. Saturday and Sunday’s flat stages are in Denmark as well.

Stage 5 on Wednesday will throw riders their first curveball, with stretches of cobblestone roads that they must negotiate. The last time the Tour attempted that, there were crashes and injuries aplenty .

After a quick visit to Belgium, another Tour country that is not France, the race will begin in earnest in the Alps (both French and Swiss), starting on July 8.

The marquee stage will be July 14 — Bastille Day, no coincidence — when the riders traverse the picturesque and punishing 21 switchbacks of Alpe d’Huez for the first time in four years. Before they even get to the hilltop finish at Alpe d’Huez, though, they will have climbed mountains whose names strike fear into the hearts of even the hardiest professional cyclists: the Col du Galibier (for the second time in two days) and the Col de la Croix de Fer.

The final key stages will be July 20 and 21 in the Pyrenees, including a climb of the Col d’Aubisque and a stage-ending ascent to the ski resort of Hautacam. If the race is still in the balance, it will be decided by a 25-mile time trial finishing in Rocamadour on July 23. The final day will be the essentially ceremonial procession on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 24.

Who are the favorites for the leader’s yellow jersey?

The two-time defending champion, Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia, is the odds-on favorite to make it three in a row. Riding for U.A.E. Team Emirates, Pogacar won two shorter tours earlier in the season as well as a big one-day race in Italy and shows no signs of slipping. And he’s still only 23.

His main rival should again be his countryman Primoz Roglic. He won an important warm-up tour, the Critérium du Dauphiné, and at age 32 may be starting to run out of chances to win the big one.

Last year’s runner-up, Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark, has to be considered a contender, too, especially if Roglic, his teammate on the Jumbo-Visma squad, falters. Vingegaard finished second to Roglic in this year’s Dauphiné.

What about the other jerseys?

At the same time he was winning the last two yellow jerseys, Pogacar was winning the polka dot jersey as best climber as well. This prize is more commonly won by a climbing specialist, however, and two Frenchmen, Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet, the 2019 winner, are candidates this time around.

Last year’s winner of the green jersey — which goes to the race’s best sprinter — was the veteran Mark Cavendish of Britain. But with Cavendish left off his Quick Step team this year, Wout van Aert of Belgium becomes the clear favorite in that particular side competition.

Pogacar is amazingly still not only young enough to win the white jersey for best young rider, but young enough that he will be eligible the next two years as well. Barring an injury, he seems like a lock to win it, even if he doesn’t lift the trophy in Paris in a month.

What’s new?

The Tour is launching the Tour de France Femmes, a women’s race that will begin on the Champs-Élysées the day the men’s Tour ends there and continue for eight days.

The final stage, though, is the real eye-opener: a punishing climb to the Planche des Belles Filles ski station in the Vosges Mountains.

At 39, Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands is favored to cap a great career with a win in the new event.

There had been a Tour for women, under the name Tour de France Féminin, for a few years in the 1980s before it was scrapped. In recent years, the Tour has hosted one- or two-day races for women, but this is the first full-stage race in decades.

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“I'm Gone. I'm Dead.” Tadej Pogačar Cracks on Stage 17 of the Tour de France

“Today was one of my worst days on my bike.”

Heading into the final week of the Tour de France, stage 17 started with Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates) crashing shortly after the start. On the 166 kilometer route from Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc to Courchevel, Pogačar went down unexpectedly

Video footage suggests Pogačar, 24, clipped the wheel of another rider a few kilometers after the start near the base of the 13.4 kilometer climb up Col des Saisies. Though he rebounded quickly and continued racing, Pogačar was bleeding from a cut to his right leg.

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), the overall leader of the Tour, was on Pogačar’s right and managed to avoid the mayhem.

Pogačar rejoined the main peloton just before a group of riders away from the pack. Pogačar is fighting on this year’s brutal Queen stage to take back time after Vingegaard’s impressive individual time trial on stage 16 where he extended his lead over the Pogačar by 1 minute and 48 seconds.

Despite Vingegaard’s time gain, Jumbo-Visma isn’t counting out the two time Tour winner.

“Pogačar is like the Germans as we say in Holland, with football, you have only beaten them when they are in the bus back home. We are only celebrating when he [Vingegaard] is in Paris in the bus and he’s [Pogačar’s] back to Ljubljana, and then we are sure,” Jumbo-Visma’s said managing director Richard Plugge according to Cycling Weekly .

As Vingegaard and company kept Pogačar close, stage 17 seemed to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. Pogačar lost the wheel of the general classification leaders and was not able to bridge the gap.

“Pogačar is dropped! The two-time @LeTour champion is in real trouble with a very long way left to climb!” tweeted SBS Sport .

Shortly after, the inconceivable was confirmed by Pogačar himself on the UAE Team Emirates radio.

“I'm gone. I’m dead,” he said.

With Pogačar behind and losing more and more time, blood running down his arm from the earlier crash, Vingegaard capitalized on the moment and launched a stunning attack. Pogačar crested the ascent five minutes behind Vingegaard, and losing four minutes overall in the GC standings.

“The dream is over,” Tour commentator Anthony McCrossen said as Pogačar crossed the line of Stage 17.

Shortly after the stage, UAE Team Emirates tweeted a message of support that read simply: “Proud.”

When asked how he was in a post-race interview, Tadej responded: “Fucked.”

“It’s like I tried to eat as much as possible and it was like nothing was going into my legs, everything was just staying in my stomach. And I was really empty at the bottom of the climb,” he continued. “I just couldn’t go today. It was not a good day.”

However, the race is not over for Tadej Pogačar.

“I hope to recover after today and we can go for another stage on Stage 20.”

It is safe to say that the drama of the Tour de France is never truly over until the final finish line has been crossed in Paris.

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Tadej Pogacar: The Slovenian prodigy with the winning touch 

The 21-year-old becomes the second-youngest winner of the Tour de France since its inception.

While many road cycling fans pinpointed Primoz Roglic as a front-runner at the Tour de France , one of his fellow Slovenians ended up grabbing the attention with incredible rides .

There is no doubt that Tadej Pogacar does not sit in his friend and rival's shadow. Pogacar is still only 21 years old, and with his win in Laruns on the Tour's ninth stage, he became the youngest man to win a stage on the Tour since 1993 .

Crossing the finish line in Paris for eventual race victory, following his stunning uphill time trial on Stage 20, sees Pogacar become the second-youngest overall champion in race history.

Pogacar finished third in his Grand Tour debut at last year's Vuelta a España behind champion Roglic and Alejandro Valverde , and is now back in the headlines after this stunning win . But who is this upstart?

Football first

Born in September 1998 just outside Komenda, north of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, cycling was not Pogacar's first love.

As a child, he became enamoured with football in elementary school, and trained with the local club after displaying some talent with the ball.

Cycling appeared on the radar almost by accident . Pogacar's elder brother, Tilen, had begun training at the ROG Ljubljana club.

"I immediately wanted to imitate my brother , but unfortunately they didn't have such a small bike in the club," Pogacar writes on his website .

However, that did not stop him, and he began training later that winter aged nine . Pogacar's first cycling race took place in early 2008 , and he hasn't looked back since.

He was signed by UAE Team Emirates in July 2018 – a move he admitted was overwhelming at first. "I was a bit afraid to meet so many new teammates, because I have only been on one team for 10 years," he told The National last year.

"Then you go somewhere new and it is a bit frightening. They accepted me really quickly and we are all good friends, we work together really well, and that helped me a lot to overcome all the challenges."

Today, cycling is in all aspects of his life – even his relationship. His girlfriend, Urska Zigart , rides for the Italy-based UCI Women's World Tour team Alé BTC Ljubljana .

Despite his young age, Pogacar has a palmarès to be envied . In addition to his national time trial championship, he is also the Slovenian cyclo-cross champion.

On the road, he won the under-23 Tour de l'Avenir – which counts two-time Grand Tour winner Nairo Quintana , Esteban Chaves , Warren Barguil , Miguel Ángel López , and 2019 Tour de France champion Egan Bernal among its former winners – as part of the Slovenian national team just weeks after signing his deal with UAE.

Overall victories followed in his rookie year as a pro at both the Volta ao Algarve and Tour of California , before his stunning breakthrough in la Vuelta during which he won three mountainous stages . He arrived in Madrid last September wearing the race's white jersey for best young rider.

It certainly impressed the pundits, with VeloNews editor Andrew Hood commenting : "He's fast, he's dashing, and he has that rare, winning touch. Who does he remind me of? A Peter Sagan who can climb."

What sets Pogacar apart from the other climbers – and therefore Grand Tour contenders – in the peloton? A switch that's apparently permanently set to attack mode .

"If you don’t attack you cannot gain time," he pointed out after winning his first Tour stage. His climb over the Col du Peyresourde on the stage before his Laruns win was just an example of that.

Pogacar attacked thrice on the Peyresourde and smashed a 17-year-old record ascent of the col when he crested the top in 24 minutes 35 seconds, beating Olympic champion Alexander Vinokourov 's 25:20 from 2003.

Heading the new generation

Pogacar is one of cycling's new breed of young talent born in the late 1990s – including Bernal, Remco Evenepoel , and Pavel Sivakov among others – that have burst onto the scene in the last two years.

"A lot of new names will be on the biggest podiums in the next five years," he said last year. "Now is the time for the next generation ."

Indeed, before the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on the global sporting calendar, the 21-year-old had his eyes set on both finishing the Tour then riding the Olympic Games course, which is set around Mount Fuji.

"If you prepare really well for the Tour de France and you finish on a high level, I think for the Olympics, it’s okay," he said to PEZ Cycling News in December. " I like hard races ," he added.

It should come as no real surprise that growing up, the Slovenian's favourite riders were three in the same attacking mould that he is now – Andy and Frank Schleck of Luxembourg and Spain's Alberto Contador .

"I did not want to copy anybody, but you can learn from them so much," he said.

Future is now

Despite his early success, Pogacar would much prefer to stay out of the limelight . "I’d love to just do the race and do none of the talking," he admitted.

He doesn't mind the odd goofball moment , however, as he showed in March during lockdown when he sent a video of himself rapping while riding on his indoor trainer.

When he's done with road racing, the cyclocross circuit had better watch out. "For sure in the future, I would like to try international races, or even World Cups."

The future is bright for Pogacar. And the future also happens to be now.

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Ahead of Pogacar 's Giro d'Italia and Tour de France double bid the 25-year-old Slovenian blew the opposition away with a maverick acceleration that none could answer on the 254km race in the Ardennes forests that marks the end of the spring classics.

Billed as a duel between Pogacar and winner of Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders Mathieu van der Poel, the Dutchman came in a commendable third but was far from going shoulder-to-shoulder for the title.

Frenchman Romain Bardet was second, also solo 1min 39sec off the pace with Van der Poel leading a bunch home at 2min 02sec.

Another pre-race favourite was Briton Tom Pidcock, who was 10th on the day after a mechanical problem at a key moment hindered his day.

The win puts to bed Pogacar's fall here last season that broke his wrist and blighted his Tour de France bid.

"It was an emotional day of riding for me," a drained-looking Pogacar said.

"Not just because of my hand but also because two years ago just before the race Urska's mother died, so I was riding for her today," Pogacar said referring to his professional cyclist partner Urska Zigart.

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Tadej Pogacar overtook countryman Primoz Roglic and is set to become the youngest Tour de France champion since 1904, the second-youngest in history and the first Slovenian champion.

Pogacar, who turns 22 on Monday, overcame a 57-second deficit to Roglic and won Saturday’s penultimate stage, a 22-mile time trial with a finishing four-mile climb. He is 59 seconds ahead of Roglic after three weeks and 84 hours of total racing.

“Actually, my dream was just to be [in] the Tour de France,” Pogacar said. “I cannot believe it, and if you ask me in one week, one month, I will still not believe it, probably.”

Pogacar won the stage by 81 seconds, greater than the margin separating second place from eighth place after 55 minutes on the roads. Roglic was fifth.

It’s reminiscent of American Greg LeMond surpassing Frenchman Laurent Fignon in the time trial finale of the 1989 Tour.

That final margin was the closest in Tour history -- eight seconds. This one would be the 11th time in Tour history that the difference is less than a minute, according to ProCyclingStats.com.

“I struggled with everything, just not enough power,” Roglic said. “I was just more and more without the power that I obviously needed. I was just really giving everything till the end.”

Australian Richie Porte will join Pogacar and Roglic on the podium after moving up from fourth place going into the time trial. Colombian Miguel Angel Lopez , who came into the day in third, dropped to sixth.

It’s the first time since 2007 that everybody on the final Tour de France podium will be there for the first time.

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Sunday’s finale is the traditional ceremonial ride into Paris where the overall leaders don’t attack each other.

Pogacar is riding his first Tour de France and in his second season as a professional cyclist with a World Tour team.

Last September, he finished third in the Vuelta a Espana, one of three Grand Tours, which Roglic won. At the time, Pogacar became the youngest Grand Tour podium finisher since 1974.

“I knew that I can be with the best, that I can follow,” after the Vuelta, Pogacar said, “but I never thought that I would win already this year, especially in this season that was really strange.”

UAE Team Emirates initially planned to use Pogacar to support Fabio Aru , but the Slovenian’s continued emergence changed the plan.

“I’m going [to the Tour] firstly to learn,” Pogacar said in May. “But if I have a chance to show what I can do, I will.”

Pogacar was Robin to Roglic’s Batman for most of this Tour.

Roglic wore the yellow jersey as race leader the last two weeks. heading the dominant Jumbo-Visma team. Pogacar donned the white jersey for the highest-placed rider 25 and under, though he was on a weaker team.

But when they went head-to-head on climbs, Pogacar usually stuck with Roglic, sometimes riding away from him.

When it came down to the final climb on Saturday, with no team support in what they call the race of truth, Pogacar showed who was the strongest Slovenian.

“[Roglic] was really superior through the whole Tour,” Pogacar said. “He must be devastated, but that’s bike racing, I guess. Today I beat him, and that was it.”

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Jonas Vingegaard in effect sealed back-to-back wins in the Tour de France after defending his overall lead in the final mountain stage of the three-week race. With only Sunday’s processional stage to central Paris to come, the Dane will, barring accidents, wear the final yellow jersey on the Champs-Élysées.

In a duel that revisited the most intriguing days of this year’s Tour, Tadej Pogacar out-sprinted his Danish rival at Le Markstein, in the Vosges. Pogacar, whose overall challenge had collapsed midweek in the Alps, had been determined to end the Tour on a positive note.

“I finally feel like myself again,” he said. “It was good to feel good again, from start to finish, after many days of suffering.”

Vingegaard said: “I’m very happy to win my second Tour de France . It was my big goal of the year and once again I must thank my team a lot. I really appreciated the battle I had with Tadej. He’s a super great guy. It’s been an amazing fight since Bilbao.

“We knew my strengths and we knew how to get the best out of my strengths. Not everyone understood our plan, but we understood ourselves and in the end it paid off.

“The Tour is the biggest race in the world and it is something special. Probably, I will try to win it again next year.”

Pogacar’s resurgence came far too late to change the status quo, and with one of the biggest victory margins of the modern era, he was beaten overall by 7min 29sec, by a dominant Vingegaard. But he was boosted by seeing his UAE Team Emirates lieutenant Adam Yates finish third.

“I definitely came in with less pressure, both external and internal,” Yates said of his first podium finish in a Grand Tour. “The team knew I was good and maybe that helped a little with my consistency.

“I found my level and also it was a good ride as a team. It’s not easy to stay consistent over three weeks and we did a pretty good job.”

With Yates leading Pogacar into the final kilometre to set up his stage-winning sprint and his twin brother, Simon, climbing up the classification and claiming fourth overall, the Yates twins ended this Tour very much as they began it in Bilbao, riding together to the finish line.

The stage was marred by a series of crashes, with three riders in the top 10 – Carlos Rodríguez, Vingegaard’s key climbing lieutenant Sepp Kuss and Thibaut Pinot’s co-leader, David Gaudu – among the fallers.

The Ineos Grenadiers rider Rodríguez, bloodied on his left side and on his brow, fought hard to hang on to fourth place but on the final climb was unable to prevent Simon Yates from moving ahead of him overall.

Competing in his last Tour and riding on local roads, Pinot made good his promise to try to win the stage. His lone move was cheered on by thousands of fans, as “Pinotmania” gripped the Vosges.

The French rider, who said before the stage that “it would be hard to know these roads better than I do”, led the yellow jersey group, containing Vingegaard, by a minute and a half as he reached the top of the penultimate climb, the Petit Ballon.

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Three pursuers, including Tom Pidcock, chased Pinot to the foot of the Tour’s last mountain, the Col du Platzerwasel. But nine kilometres from the finish the Frenchman’s determination was no longer enough and after being swept up by Vingegaard, Pogacar and the Austrian climbing phenomenon Felix Gall he slipped behind.

Meanwhile, relations between Pinot’s Groupama-FDJ team and Vingegaard’s Jumbo-Visma lineup reached a new low after a row broke out between Vingegaard’s team manager, Richard Plugge, and Pinot’s manager, Marc Madiot.

Plugge, who has been active in recent days in pushing back against a wave of scepticism directed towards Vingegaard’s performances, said Madiot’s riders had been drinking alcohol during last Monday’s rest day, on the eve of the Tour’s pivotal time trial stage.

“We were with a French team at our hotel during the rest day. We could see riders drink large beers. Alcohol is poison and when you’re tired, it makes you more tired,” Plugge said.

Madiot reacted by saying: “Who does he think he is? It’s an exceptionally vile attack on his part. He should keep his mouth shut.”

The Frenchman said that rest day “get-togethers” were normal for his team. “I was at the table, there were Perriers,” Madiot said. “It’s shabby of Plugge – small and shabby.”

Plugge’s description of alcohol as poison also appeared to be at odds with Vingegaard’s own response to a question after stage 12 had finished in the Beaujolais region. “My wife and I enjoy a bottle of wine from time to time but, as a cyclist, not so often.”

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Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, celebrates on the podium after the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles) with start in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and finish in Courchevel, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, follows Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, during the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles) with start in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and finish in Courchevel, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, strains during the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles) with start in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and finish in Courchevel, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, strains as he follows Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, during the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles) with start in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and finish in Courchevel, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, follows teammate Netherlands’ Dylan van Baarle, and is followed by Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, during the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles) with start in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and finish in Courchevel, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

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The pack with Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, and Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, climbs during the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles) with start in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and finish in Courchevel, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, follows teammate Netherlands’ Wilco Kelderman as they climb Col de la Loze pass during the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles) with start in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and finish in Courchevel, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, blows a kiss on the podium after the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles) with start in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and finish in Courchevel, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Austria’s Felix Gall celebrates after crossing the finish line to win the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles) with start in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and finish in Courchevel, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool)

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COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — After destroying Tadej Pogacar in the race against the clock , Jonas Vingegaard dealt him the coup de grace in the Tour de France with an impressive display in the mountains on Wednesday.

Vingegaard is now well on course to bring the yellow jersey to Paris for a second straight year after the Danish rider took a huge lead over his main rival.

The defending champion dropped Pogacar in the last big stage in the Alps to increase his overall lead to seven minutes and 35 seconds. Barring any big crash, he looks set to win his second Tour title.

“Now to have more than seven minutes is just really incredible,” Vingegaard said. “Of course the Tour de France is not over yet, I’m sure Tadej will try something on the last three stages. We’re not in Paris yet.”

Vingegaard finished the 17th stage in fourth place, almost six minutes before an exhausted Pogacar crossed the finish line.

The race ends in the French capital with a largely ceremonial stage on Sunday. There is just one tough stage remaining before then — on Saturday in the Alsace region, with the peloton facing a total of 3,600 meters of climbing.

But with such a big gap between the Tour’s main contenders, it’s unlikely to have an impact in the fight for the yellow jersey.

“We are in a good spot now,” Vingegaard said.

Pogacar, a two-time champion who was dethroned by Vingegaard last year, lost contact about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the finish at the ski resort of Courchevel.

The punishing trek had been dubbed the Queen Stage of this year’s Tour because of its daunting profile. The last of four climbs was a 28.4-kilometer (17.6-mile) slog up Col de la Loze, close to the uphill finish.

A day after Vingegaard destroyed the field in the race’s time trial, Pogacar did not find the strength to attack and got dropped in the monster climb. His teammate Marc Soler stayed with him to try and pace him back, in vain.

The day had started on a sour note for Pogacar, who crashed just a few kilometers into the 166-kilometer (103-mile) ride. The Slovenian leader of the UAE Team Emirates fell off at a moderate speed on an uphill section near the foot of the Col des Saisies after apparently touching the wheel of a rider.

Pogacar was quickly back on his bike and continued racing to rejoin the main contenders before a group of breakaway riders moved away from the pack.

Pogacar said the crash could have affected him but he did not try to find excuses.

“It hurts a little, maybe it affected my body. I just couldn’t go today. It was not a good day,” he said.

On paper, the punishing Col de La Loze culminating at 2,304 meters above sea level — with some slopes with a gradient more than 24% — looked like the perfect playground for a final showdown in thin air between Pogacar and Vingegaard.

But Pogacar did not have good legs, and the duel never took place.

Once Pogacar cracked, Vingegaard dropped all the riders that still accompanied him, chasing behind the remaining breakaway riders. He first joined his Jumbo-Visma teammate Wilco Kelderman and the pair soldiered on together on brutal slopes.

Vingegaard’s ferocious ride amid huge crowds was briefly put to a halt by a race motorbike that was stopped in the middle of the narrow and winding road up to the summit.

At the front of the stage, Felix Gall resisted the chase to post the biggest win of his career. Simon Yates was second, with Pello Bilbao completing the stage podium.

“This whole year has been incredible. And now to do so well in the Tour de France, to win the Queen Stage, it’s incredible,” said Gall, a Tour debutant. “One and a half years ago I couldn’t imagine I’d be in this position now.”

Adam Yates kept his third place overall, 10:45 off the pace.

Vingegaard took control of the Tour during Tuesday’s time trial. He had started Stage 16 only 10 seconds ahead of Pogacar after little could separate the duo in a fascinating duel over the last two weeks. However, when it came down to a head-to-head battle in the race against the clock, Vingegaard was in a class of his own.

He finished the 22.4-kilometer (14-mile) hilly route from Passy to Combloux 1:38 ahead of Pogacar.

Pogacar had his Tour de France preparations hampered by a left wrist facture he sustained in April during the Liege–Bastogne–Liege classic and required surgery. But his tremendous performances over the first two weeks of racing had erased initial doubts about his Tour form.

“Today was one of the worst days on the bike but I had to keep fighting,” Pogacar said.

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Tadej Pogacar's bike: The Slovenian sensation's Colnago for 2023

We got up close and personal with Pogacar's Colnago V4Rs at the UAE team's winter training camp, and run you through some of his previous race bikes, too

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Tadej Pogačar's 2022 Colnago Prototipo

Tadej pogačar's 2021 colnago v3rs, tadej pogačar's 2020 colnago v3rs.

Tadej Pogačar is one of the biggest names in pro cycling right now, if not the biggest. He can seemingly win on any terrain at any time, already racking up a palmares that is difficult to summarise in an introduction such as this. How does this sound: Two Tour de France general classification victories, one of which made him the youngest winner since 1904, and a second place in 2022. He also picked up two climbers' jerseys in the process, and has also won three monuments ( two at Lombardy , one at Liege-Bastogne-Liege ), plus wins on the more spicy terrain of Strada Bianche . 

He's the only rider in history to break the 6,000-point barrier for UCI ranking points too, and even dabbles in cyclocross on occasion (naturally he also wins here , too), and is part of what is regularly being called 'the new generation' of riders, along with Wout van Aert , Matthieu Van der Poel , Remco Evenepoel , Tom Pidcock , et al. 

Given this impressive rap sheet, it's no wonder his Wikipedia page contains a section entitled  "Comparisons with Eddy Merckx". It's also no wonder that people are curious about Tadej Pogačar's bike, so let's look at what this 66kg rocketship is riding, and how he sets his machine up.

Fortunately for you, while attending the launch of the new Colnago V4Rs , we snuck behind the scenes at the UAE Team Emirates makeshift service course at the team's winter training camp and got an in-depth look at Pogačar's race bike for the 2023 season. There's a raft of new equipment compared to his 2022 bike, so get your notepads out and pay attention at the back.

What is Tadej Pogačar's bike for 2023?

Pogačar and the rest of UAE Team Emirates ride the Colnago V4Rs. It's the Italian brand's only dedicated high-level race bike. This year, there has been a number of component swaps. The groupset is now Shimano Dura-Ace, the wheels from Enve, and the tyres from Continental. 

At its launch, Pogačar had nothing but positive things to say about his new bike: "For sure the Colnago V4Rs is more stiff and more responsive. When you stand up you feel a better response, better reacting [sic]. For sure this helps in the peloton in the fast races and when attacking and sprinting. This was for me the biggest change from the V3Rs."

However, it unwittingly entered the limelight when retired Classics rider Tom Boonen controversially claimed that Colnago wasn't on the same level as the bike brands ridden by Pogacar's rivals. Naturally, Colnago disagreed, calling Boonen's claims unsubstantiated . Somewhat ironically, on that very same day, Pogačar obliterated his rivals on the Stage 4 summit finish of Paris-Nice . 

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What size is Tadej Pogačar's bike?

At 1.77m tall, Pogačar is likely to be riding an approximately 54cm frameset. Colnago does sizing a little differently though. We believe he's using a '485' frame, which is a little smaller than is perhaps ideal for a customer of his height but allows him to run a longer stem, especially with the saddle pushed far forwards. Again, we can't know the stem size for sure, but it looks to us in the region of 130-140mm.

Tadej Pogačar's Colnago V4Rs Specifications

At the heart of any race bike is the frameset. In this case, it's the Colnago V4Rs, the pro-leaning spur of Colnago's upper echelon of road bikes (the C68 being aimed at amateurs). It's an evolution of the old V3Rs, via an intermediate 'Prototipo' prototype stage, and at a glance not a great deal has changed. It's the usual mix of lighter, stiffer and more aero, as we always come to expect with a new bike. It's the only race bike UAE Team Emirates will be using, outside of time trials, as Colnago doesn't make an aero road bike as other manufacturers do. 

The paint job is similar to the Prototipo, unsurprisingly given they're effectively the same bike, and it's noticably more pared back than the already spartan paintwork on the V3Rs team bikes. Paint weighs a lot, so from a racing perspective, the more you can leave as bare carbon the better; it doesn't exactly set the heart racing though. 

While the frame is new, UAE have all new equipment sponsors for 2023 too, so when we borrowed this bike, the mechanics were fervently fettling in the makeshift service course getting all the new gear ready.

The two most noticeable changes are to the wheels and drivetrain. The locomotion and stopping power is handled by Shimano now, rather than Campagnolo, so naturally that means a Dura-Ace Di2 setup, with dual-sided power meter, and in this case, 54/40t chainrings. 172.5mm cranks arms remain, but at the end of them are Dura-Ace pedals rather than his set of Look Keo Blade II pedals. 

The wheels then? Gone are the extremely flashy Campagnolo Bora Ultras. In their place comes a set of Enve 45s. These aren't the top-end set from the American brand, so we expect when the time comes to pin on a race number, Pogačar and the rest of the team will instead be using the SES 4.5, or a different depth from Enve's SES range depending on the terrain. Here they are shod with Continental GP500 TR tubeless-ready tyres, but as these seem to be the 'training wheels', the mechanics haven't set them up tubeless, opting for tried and tested inner tubes instead, with a strip of tape to stop the valves rattling. 

The one-piece cockpit is similar to what we've previously seen on Pogačar's Prototipo; a single monocoque construction with a slim frontal area and truncated aerofoil rear. As with Remco Evenepoel's bike and Michael Matthews' bike, the brake hoods are turned inwards to allow a narrower, more aero position. 

Pogačar is also using a new saddle for this season, swapping from the Prologo M5 Scratch to the brand's Dimension model, and slammed forward in the seat clamp beyond the recommended limit to allow him to get further over the front of the bike.

Elite bottle cages, Colnago bar tape, and a Wahoo computer (not pictured) round out what is an understated build for a rider so prone to occupying the top step of the podium.

For an already storied rider, Pogačar has an extremely simple bike history, having been with UAE Team Emirates his whole professional career. The only real changes have been which model Colnago he was using in any given year. 

In many respects this is a very similar bike to Pogačar's 2023 V4Rs. After all, it is the prototype on which the current model was based, so the frameset, seatpost, and cockpit are all functionally identical, though the cockpit here is a Deda model rather than the Colnago CC.01 unit of the V4Rs; we can't dive into the carbon layup because however nicely we ask the team mechanics are always reluctant to let us saw a team bike in half. 

In many other respects, this is a different beast. A Campagnolo Super-Record EPS 12-speed groupset deals with shifting and braking, mated to a spider-based SRM power meter, communicating with an SRM computer at the bars. 

Look pedals and a Prologo Scratch saddle are different contact points for Pogačar, and the bike is connected to the road by 26mm Pirelli P-Zero Race tyres. The same beating heart of the bike then, but a different set of organs (to stretch the anatomy metaphor a little too far to be comfortable). 

Have you really won the Tour de France if you don't get a commemorative yellow bike? Technically yes, but the winners of any grand tour nowadays always get their hands on a colour-matched frameset and usually some equipment here too. 

Here the Colnago V3Rs frameset is blocked out with yellow sections, along with yellow Colnago logos. Yellow Look pedals and yellow bar tape complete what is again quite a subtle winner's build compared to others we've seen in the past.

Pogačar's bike has had something of a slow evolution. Before swapping to the 2023 equipment he was using the old gear on the new prototype frame. Back in 2020 he was on both the older V3Rs frame and the Campagnolo build. 

The frameset is similar in its ideals to the V4Rs; to be a single race bike capable of winning everywhere. Here though there's a T-shaped top tube rather than the smooth one of the V4Rs. The geometry is tweaked too; the V3Rs has a shorter reach than the current bike, which was lengthened to allow the riders to achieve a more stretched-out, aero position. The chainstays here for the V3Rs are longer too, keeping the same wheelbase in an attempt to normalise the handling characteristics across the two models. 

This year, he typically used a rim brake model, but for the crosswind stages in the middle section of the race, he went with disc brakes. 

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A glance at a picture of Tadej Pogacar’s 2021 Tour de France race bike might have led you to believe that we could have done a quick cmd+c, cmd+v of his 2020 winning bike and clocked off for an early lunch - but a second glance would have shown you a shift in the Slovenian’s preferences.

Last year Pogacar had a very ‘traditional’ setup on the Colnago V3Rs. A Campagnolo Super Record EPS 12-speed groupset, Bora One tubular wheels and a nice set of Campagnolo’s Super Record rim brakes flew up the Champs Elysees with the yellow jersey aboard.

In 2020’s decisive stage, the La Planche des Belle Filles time trial that provided one of the most dramatic finishes ever in the race’s history, Pogacar made several changes, including using a cassette usually chosen by junior racers, special lightweight tyres, and he even removed his power meter and computer so that he could ride on feel alone.

> The bike(s) that snatched Tour de France victory at the last minute - Pogacar's 2020 Colnagos

While 2020 was a Tour-winning bike for the purists, Pogacar has turned more towards a modern setup for this year’s race, switching over to the disc-brake Campagnolo Super Record EPS groupset and the new Bora Ultra WTO tubeless wheels for most of the stages.

We spoke to Campagnolo’s Nicolo Ildos to get the juicy details on his 2021 race bike:

road.cc: Can Campagnolo summarise all the new products Pogacar was using in the 2021 Tour de France compared to last year?   

Marginal gains are key in cycling today, so the tech on and off the bike is crucial. Aerodynamics are fundamental to perform at the maximum level, so the new Bora Ultra WTO wheels were a big step for saving watts; not just for Tadej but for the whole team, allowing his teammates to be there when needed.

Disc brakes offered Tadej and the team extra safety while braking, a fundamental skill especially on such a crazy tour with a lot of crashes. Poor braking performance might increase your chances of crashing while in the bunch.

What size rotors and what type of brake pads did Pogacar use?

At the rear, he chose a 140mm rotor as braking power isn’t so important here. At the front, he prefers the larger 160mm rotor. There isn’t a huge weight difference, but there is a notable increase in stopping power which can come in handy when riding in a nervous peloton.

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In terms of the pads, these are just our standard Super Record pads. They cope really well with the mixed weather and are consistent when the rain starts to fall.

What chainring and cassette sizes did Pogacar use? Were there any changes depending on the terrain stage by stage?   

Up front, he uses a standard 53-39 chainset for most stages in the mountains and on the flats. He might ask for a 54 if there was a day where there was going to be a tail crosswind, but this isn’t too common.

Tadej likes to spin his legs so usually chooses an 11-29 cassette, but on some of the harder mountain days he did go for an 11-32. The stage that finished in Andorra featured a particularly spicy final climb, so the 11-32 was appropriate.

His TT bike is quite different. With no climbing, a 58T 1X chainring was chosen as it’s a bit more aerodynamic and also allows for a better chain line for a few extra watts saved. All of his bikes use a 172.5mm crank length.

Why the switch to rim brakes for the mountain stages?  

His wheels were standard ones that the public can buy themselves, and the best thing about the new Ultra WTO hoops is improved aero performance. This comes in the form of a few clever features. Firstly, the rims are designed to be aero-optimised with 25mm tyres, which the team commonly uses for road stages. There are some more subtle differences too, such as the internal nipples and improved front hub design, which all save a few watts.

> Review: Campagnolo Record 12-speed Disc groupset

Finally, there have been improvements to the rolling resistance using CULT bearings. We’ve improved the handling thanks to a wider internal channel, and the wheels are 100g lighter compared to the standard WTO range.

Were there any stages in particular where the equipment really offered a performance advantage?

We’ve seen how frantically each stage has been raced this year, with breakaway attacks continuing for over 100km on some stages. Generally, all of these fast stages require high aero performance simply so that Tadej can save as much energy as possible for the finales. Even riding in the peloton, you want to be aero.

He loves all of it! He’s been really influential in the product development of the Bora Ultra WTO wheels, and he’s impressed with the speed. If he didn’t believe in the benefits of the tubeless wheels and the disc brakes then he wouldn’t have been using them for the majority of the Tour.

> Campagnolo’s new Bora Ultra WTO wheels use new C-Lux carbon for weight savings across the range

He also likes that he can switch between disc brakes and his more traditional setup when he sees fit.

From a technical perspective, what sets Campagnolo apart from other component manufacturers?

It’s hard to compare yourself to others, but trying to be as honest as possible, we think it’s our attention to detail, quality control and on-field race support that sets us apart.

We’re also really proud of the fact that our manufacturing has remained in Italy. It doesn’t simply keep us true to our heritage, it also allows us to quickly develop products and control their quality.

When the dust had settled on the cobblestones of Paris, Pogacar stood comfortably on the top step of the podium. His nearest rival was over five minutes down and it is looking like the Slovenian, who is still only 22 years old, could make it three wins in his first three appearances at the race. Besides the question of whether that has ever been done before, it’ll be very interesting to see what bike and components he picks for next year.

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