Tour de France: Pogacar clearly draws with the victory of level 13 | Tour de France 2025

A breathless Jonas Vingegaard sagged over his bike on another baking Pyrenean afternoon after Tadej Pogacar had added a further devastating defeat to the mountain time trial in Peyragudes.

The second attempt at the tour 2025 should further confirm the supremacy of Pogacar to the Peloton, and so this turned out to be over four minutes when the defending champion extended his fourth level in this year and the 21st tour level of his career.

He drove with a standard roadbike instead of a time trial setup and was the fastest check of the 10.9 km long ascent in every respect, and in many ways a carbon copy from Thursday to Hautacam, where he also triumphed.

In view of his current dominance, Pogacar was asked if he would ever consider supporting himself during the tour so that his rivals could share the prey. “I'm not here to make enemies,” he said, “but it is the tour, you can't just withdraw if there is the opportunity for a stage victory. You never know when it is your last day on the tour.

“I will honestly say. The team pays them for the profit, and there is a big team behind me that supports me, and that works every single day of their career to get the tour to win the tour. If there is an opportunity, you cannot say it about a stage on the tour.

“When I end my career, I will probably not speak to 99% of the peloton. I will concentrate on my close friends and my family.

The Slovenian has now opened a yawning gap between him and the rest of the peloton, thanks to the consecutive summit summit surfaces. In Hautacam it took it two minutes and 10 seconds from Vingegaard in 12 km; When he crossed the line of the Pyrenean Altiport, he had distanced the Dane further and now leads for a total of four minutes and seven seconds. With Vingegaard three minutes before Remco's third-placed Remco, only six drivers are now to Pogacar within 10 minutes.

“I didn't have the legs I wanted,” said a drained Hallepoel. “I just felt empty within a few minutes after the start. I'm pretty disappointed.”

Scotland's Oscar Onley persistently stays with a high finish and rises to fifth place after taking seventh place on stage. “I suffered a bit after yesterday,” said ONLEY.

If Pogacar is almost out of sight, the real struggle can now be for the podium. Primoz Roglic, who started the tour, said his main interest in coming to Paris and drinking champagne, now steadily ahead of the overall ranking. The 35-year-old, who was overturned by Pogacar on the edge of the overall victory in the last time trial of the tour 2020, took the best time on the 10.9 km long test until Vingegaard and then inevitably exceeded Pogacar.

In the meantime, the French sprinter Bryan Coquard, the driver who collided with Jasper Philipsen on the third stage and fell out the Belgian sprinter from the race, decided to leave the tour after he had broken his bones in his right hand while trying to take his food bag from a team helper in the stage on Thursday.

With his right hand, Coquard drove the time trial, which was strapped down, and then stepped off the bike to leave the race and go home to be operated on. “I wanted to drive the time trial today, but for security reasons I can't start tomorrow,” he said. “I can't brake with my right hand, which is not a problem in a hard time trial, but it is obviously dangerous in the peloton.”

With Pogacar in such an extensive form, the racing organization is still interested in emphasizing that everything should still play. The truth is that Vingegaard will need much more spring in his step if he should remain even at the touch of his rival.

Pogacar won the 2024 Giro d'Italia by almost 10 minutes and also took six stages. The time attempts can be the most emphatic Grand tour of the Slovenian with the previous summit degree of the Slovenian.

In the meantime, Roglic is not the only one who already thinks of Paris. The dancers from the Moulin Rouge have announced that they will take to the street and dance the can-can-can-do, while the peloton leads through Montmartre on the last phase. Maybe Roglic jumps off, lifts a flute and closes.