The question hovering over the Tour de France is what options are left. With Tadej Pogačar seemingly hell-bent on winning everything, at the slightest provocation, the question that hovers just out of sight is: What can you do to beat that?
For a while, it looked like Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) had cracked the formula. Just after the catch of the lone surviving breakaway rider, Movistar’s Javier Romo, there was a surge from Carapaz and then he was away, throwing his bike back and forth in a limber side-to-side out of the saddle. The gap that grew out was, at first, hard-won, and then came in a rush. By the top of the Pas de Peyrol, it was looking like this might be the winning move.
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