Tour de France LIVE: Tadej Pogacar attacks Jonas Vingegaard as Michal Kwiatkowski wins stage 13
The fight for the yellow jersey took another twist as Tadej Pogacar attacked Jonas Vingegaard on the Grand Colombier
Former world champion Michal Kwiatkowski soloed to the top of the Grand Colombier mountain on the Tour de France and Tadej Pogacar cut a little more time off Jonas Vingegaard’s lead in the fight for the yellow jersey on Friday.
Kwiatkowski, a seasoned veteran with the Ineos Grenadiers team, was part of an early breakaway and went solo about 11 kilometers from the daunting mountaintop finish.
Vingegaard and Pogacar watched each other closely. Well shepherded by his UAE Team Emirates teammates, Pogacar did not attack before the last 500 meters of the 17.4-kilometer-long ascent, yet managed to gain some precious time.
Pogacar crossed the line in third position behind Kwiatkowski and Maxim van Gils, four seconds ahead of Vingegaard. He was awarded a time bonus of four seconds for his third-place finish to cut Vingegaard’s overall lead to just nine seconds ahead of two big mountain stages scheduled in the Alps over the weekend before Monday’s second rest day.
Follow all the latest from today’s stage 13 below.
The yellow jersey speaks after stage 13
Jonas Vingegaard: “My goal today was to keep the yellow jersey, I still have it so I’m happy. I know Pogacar is much more explosive than me. I don’t think the followers always understand our tactics but as long as we get it, it’s OK.”
Tour de France standings after stage 13
A good day for Tom Pidcock, who clung on to finish fifth and gain significant time against some of his rivals in the top 10 of the general classification. He’s eighth overall going into two tough days in the Alps.
If you click on the ‘stopwatch’ on the infographic above, you’ll be able to see all the latest standings.
Tour de France standings after stage 13
Here’s how everything is shaping up after stage 13:
Michal Kwiatkowski speaks
Kwiatkowski is asked, what was your plan today? “We just didn’t want to miss the big breakaway. You never know who will enter that breakaway. Then I found probably the best legs I ever had in my life. I didn’t believe that was possible, but here I am!”
Tour de France result – Michal Kwiatkowski wins stage 13
The moment Kwiatkowski sealed victory on stage 13:
Tour de France LIVE – Pogacar outsprints Vingegaard to the line
Tadej Pogacar storms up the final few hundred metres from Vingegaard who can’t quite keep in touch, and Pogacar takes perhaps four seconds over his rival on the line – plus a four-second time bonus for finishing third on the stage. That 17-second gap in the GC could be down to less than 10 tonight once that’s all confirmed.
Michal Kwiatkowski wins stage 13!
Kwiatkowski may not have planned to get in to the breakaway today but he’ll be very glad he did. The super domestique is going to clinch the second Tour de France stage of his career!
And Pogacar attacks!!!
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Tour de France LIVE – Pogacar and Vingegaard locked in stalemate
2km to go: Kwiatkowski is closing in on the summit finish. Is Pogacar loading up for an attack or is the yellow jersey fight heading for a truce today?
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