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ALPES-MARITIMES, 22 July (BelTA — Emirates News Agency) — Tadej Pogačar
of UAE Team Emirates honoured once again his yellow jersey at the Tour
de France, this time by winning stage 19, Embrun-Isola 2000 (144.6 km
with the climbs of the Col de la Bonnette and the summit arrival).
The
Slovenian rider attacked from the group of favourites at 8.7 km to the
arrival, after that UAE Team Emirates had worked perfectly for
controlling the gap from the main breakaway of the day.
When the
yellow jersey accelerated, there were still six former members of the
breakaway preceding him, with Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike)
leading the race with 2’40” on Pogačar.
Jonas Vingegaard
(Visma-Lease a Bike) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) could not
follow UAE Team Emirates’ captain, who began a sort of mountain time
trial that saw him overtake all the six riders preceding him: he was the
solo leader at 1,900 metres to the arrival and from that moment he
could enjoy each stroke of the pedal that gave him his 4th stage victory
in the Grande Boucle 2024.
Pogačar: “My teammates and I have
talked already of how badly we wanted to race this day, and we raced as
we said, setting everything up to the point when I attacked. It was
perfect. I was a little bit empty in the final two kilometres of the
stage. When I caught Carapaz and Simon Yates, I felt I was already on my
limit. Then I saw Matteo and pushed through to overtake him at great
speed. That killed my legs, and I was afraid that he might come back to
outsprint me. He was very strong today, as was the rest of the
breakaway. Chapeau to all of them.”
Second place of Jorgenson at 21”, João Almeida was 7th at 2’ and the Portuguese athlete strengthened his 4th position in the GC.
Pogačar
will face stage 20 (132.8 km from Nice to the summit arrival of the Col
de la Couillole, facing the climbs of the Col de Braus, the Col du
Turini, the Col de la Colmiane) with 5’03” on Vingegaard ad 7’01” on
Evenepoel.
