US EditionPogacar Tightens Grip on Tour, Healy 11th Overall
OCCITANIE, FRANCE, JUL 18 – Tadej Pogacar secured victory in the 13th stage individual time trial, demonstrating superior speed and endurance in the 2025 Tour de France.
- On Friday, Tadej Pogacar posted the best time in the mountainous individual time trial, regaining the overall lead.
- Stage 13 featured a short but severe mountain time trial course, challenging riders with gradients up to 16% as they climbed to the Peyragudes altiport, following a brutal Pyrenean test from the previous day.
- He clocked 36 seconds ahead of rival Jonas Vingegaard on the course with a 664m climb.
- That win extended Tadej Pogacar's overall lead to 4:07 over Jonas Vingegaard ahead of Saturday's mountain stage.
- Following Stage 13, riders face Stage 14, a 182.6-kilometer mountain course from Pau to Luchon-Superbagneres on Saturday, July 19.
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The yellow leotard of the Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team), won this Friday the timescale with finale in Peyragudes, in the Pyrenees, chaining a second consecutive victory and the fourth in total since the release of this 112th edition. “I am not untouchable, but I try to be”, confessed the Slovenian ogre after striking a new blow to the race, with less and less emotion about its final outcome. At the end of the 10.9 kilometers between L…
"I went out without headphones because the tactic was simple: go to the top from the beginning," explained the leader about a win that distanced him more than four minutes from Vingegaard. All his rivals used cross-clock bikes.
The Slovenian also dominates the mountain-time skiing to Peyragudes and now has a head start of over four minutes on his rival Jonas Vincegaard.
The Slovenian is already at his 21st victory in the Grand Loop.
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