Tour De France 2025: Stage 15 From Muret To Carcassonne – Live

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It was bully of Tadej Pogacar to yet fto immoderate of nan different riders to person a spell yesterday and he still recovered a measurement to twist nan weapon further into nan bosom of Jonas Vingegaard’s beleaguered hopes of winning nan Tour de France. Even nan Dane’s astir generous fans would struggle to picture him arsenic a yellowish jersey rival now. Pogacar’s advantage is 4mins 13secs and he is fundamentally racing against himself. The Slovenian has 21 shape wins and location is each chance that he will proceed his accelerated pursuit of Mark Cavendish’s record. Pogacar made it beautiful clear aft winning shape 13 connected Friday that he is not readying to return immoderate days off.

“I’m not present to make enemies,” he said, “but it’s nan Tour, you cannot conscionable backmost disconnected if there’s nan opportunity for a shape win. You ne'er cognize erstwhile it’s your past time connected nan Tour.

“I will opportunity it honestly. The squad pays you to win, and there’s a large squad down maine that supports maine and that useful each azygous time of their profession to travel to nan Tour, to triumph nan Tour. If location is an opportunity, you spell for it. You can’t opportunity nary to a shape successful nan Tour.”

Still, UAE Emirates whitethorn look astatine nan quiet threat to Pogacar’s wide classification lead and determine to play this 1 safe. There are 3 categorised climbs and a lumpy to descent into Carcassonne to contend with, truthful possibly location is simply a spot of dream for nan breakaway? Should that beryllium allowed to play out, specified is nan quality of master cycling successful this constant-go era that a victor for this shape will apt beryllium a acquainted sanction tin connected nan slopes from nan one-day racing pack. Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Wout van Aert (Visma-LAB) are beardown contenders, possibly moreover Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-LAB) aliases personification pinch that benignant of profile.

For nan bully of nan Tour, a non-Pogacar shape triumph would beryllium good. Domination tin quickly go dull and while location is thing boring astir Pogacar’s style of racing, cycling arsenic a foregone conclusion is not overmuch of a sport.