Tour De France 2025: Pogacar Rides Back Into Yellow With Sprint Victory In Stage Seven

Tadej Pogacar is backmost successful nan yellowish jersey aft nan defending champion fought disconnected Jonas Vingegaard to triumph shape 7 of nan Tour de France.

Pogacar, who has won nan Tour 3 times, claimed his 2nd shape of this year’s Tour astatine nan extremity of a 197km thrust from Saint-Malo to Mûr-de-Bretagne, outsprinting Vingegaard astatine nan acme finish, pinch Britain’s Oscar Onley taking 3rd place.

Mathieu van der Poel began nan time pinch a one-second lead complete Pogacar but nan Dutchman vanished 22nd connected nan shape and slipped to 5th overall, pinch nan Belgian Remco Evenepoel now successful 2nd spot 54 seconds down nan Slovenian.

“I’m ace happy pinch nan triumph today,” Pogacar said. “We did it almost perfectly. I understand Joao [Almeida] crashed, I dream he’s okay - if he’s okay past it’s a cleanable time and if not past this triumph is for him.

“Me and Mathieu some cognize this decorativeness very good pinch bully memories. I conjecture we some wanted to triumph connected this iconic climb but possibly he near excessively overmuch connected nan roadworthy yesterday truthful we couldn’t person this rematch, but for maine nan time went arsenic planned truthful it’s amazing.”

Geraint Thomas, nan oldest man successful nan section riding his last Tour astatine 39, had been portion of a five-man breakaway to effort their luck connected nan 197km shape from Saint-Malo, but they were ne'er fixed much than astir 90 seconds arsenic nan main contenders eyed nan imaginable to summation clip connected nan steep finale.

• Jeremy Whittle’s study to follow.