- Australian rider crosses line first in Tignes after breakaway
- Tadej Pogacar leads O’Connor by just over two minutes
In a torrid weekend of Alpine racing, the defending Tour de France champion, Tadej Pogacar, broke the resistance of his most likely rivals and took a near-invincible lead in the three-week race, after only nine of the Tour’s 21 stages.
Having cracked the peloton apart with a remarkable lone attack on Saturday’s first mountain stage to Le Grand-Bornand, the UAE Emirates team leader again took time at Tignes, the Tour’s first summit finish, where he seemed to almost toy with the once-dominant Ineos Grenadiers, led by Richard Carapaz and Geraint Thomas.
Written by Jeremy Whittle in Tignes
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