Two years after Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) outkicked him at Le Lioran in the 2024 Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) struck back on Tuesday, storming to a solo victory on stage 10 of this year's race.
The world champ attacked out of the GC group on the Col de Pertus, caught lone attacker Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), and pressed on over the Col de Font de Cère and the uphill run to Le Lioran to take another convincing win at this Tour. Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) took second place 32 seconds later with Paul Seixas (Decathlon-CMA CGM) in third.
Vingegaard, after pulling the chasing group most of the way home, was then gapped in the final moments of the stage, finishing 12 seconds behind Evenepoel and thus 44 seconds behind Pogačar, who extended his GC lead to over three and a half minutes with another strong showing in the Massif Central.
Quote of the day
To all the guys that were booing, they give us more power.
—Pogačar
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