300 words from Tour: Neither hunger nor heat. Pogačar wrote the scenario of his own loss last year himself – Denník N

As expected, Friday’s 13th stage of the Tour de France did not bring changes in the overall ranking, the main favorites reached the finish line together, the Dane Mads Pedersen was happy with the win. The 2019 world champion succeeded in escaping. Peter Sagan also tried to escape at the beginning of the stage, but without success. On the most famous Grand Tour, what happened two days ago still resonates, as until recently it was hardly imaginable. Tadej Pogačar ran out of energy on the climb to the Alpine Col du Granon, Dane Jonas Vingegaard was almost three minutes faster and deprived him of the yellow jersey. In the career of the man who won the previous two editions of the Tour, we have not seen a similar failure. In the past months, the 23-year-old Slovenian was almost invincible, and journalists asked him last November if there was even a strategy to beat him. The answer that followed turned out to be startlingly accurate in hindsight. Pogačar described in detail the procedure that deprived him of the yellow jersey on Wednesday. “On hills that are not too long, I can perform well. But on This article is exclusive content for Denník N subscribers. Are you a subscriber? Log in