Pogacar defeats Vingegaard to win stage seven and extend his lead

• Slovenian extends overall lead with victory on 176.3km ride.
• Twice-defending champion pips last year’s runner-up Jonas Vingegaard to the line.
• Britain’s Geraint Thomas sits in third place, one minute and 10 seconds off the pace.

Tadej Pogacar reinforced his hold on the Tour de France as he expanded his general lead with triumph on the seventh stage on Friday subsequent to being kept honest by his primary opponent, Jonas Vingegaard, in an exhilarating finale.

The two times reigning champ pipped last year’s second-place Vingegaard of Denmark to the line after a lung-obliterating the last exertion toward the finish of the rising to the Super Planche des Belles Filles, a 7-km move at a typical inclination of 8.7%.

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“It was a truly decent stage to win I’m really cheerful I could win it however it was so difficult. Toward the end I was on the breaking point, truly,” Slovenia’s Pogacar said after the 176.3-km ride from Tomblaine in eastern France.

“I was downright awful in the end on the grounds that Jonas is areas of strength for truly, to give everything and I needed this stage at all expense.”

Rising up out of a dust storm in the last kilometer hustled on grimy streets, German Lennard Kaemna looked near triumph as he drove the gathering of top choices by exactly 40 seconds.

That is when Pogacar chose to assume control over the matter as the slope went more than 20%, placing the sledge down in the principal peak finish of the race.

The 23-year-old’s speed increase left his opponents heaving for air yet Vingegaard figured out how to take him to haggle after the couple got Kaemna with under 100 meters to go.

The Dane had several bicycle lengths on Pogacar and appeared to be setting out toward triumph when the UAE rider delivered a last explosion of speed to circumvent Vingegaard and require his subsequent stage win in two days.

Primoz Roglic, 2020 next in line, took the third spot, 12 seconds behind, showing great structure two days subsequent to separating his shoulder in an accident during the fifth stage.

In general, Pogacar drives Vingegaard by 35 seconds with Britain’s Geraint Thomas sitting in the third spot, one moment and 10 seconds off the speed.

Thomas’ Ineos-Grenadiers group, with four riders in the main 10 generally, will be hoping to blow the race open when it stirs things up around town on Sunday.

“I had the option to simply ride my speed and unwind and be prepared throughout the previous couple of moments, which were damnation,” said 2018 hero Thomas.

Russian Aleksandr Vlasov, one of the riders tipped to make it onto the platform in Paris, was dropped with 4km left and lost 1:39.

Kaemna took the fourth spot while Thomas was fifth, both going too far 14 seconds behind the yellow shirt holder.

France’s David Gaudu completed 6th, 19 seconds unfastened, to climb to fifth in general, 1:31 off the speed and 13 seconds behind Briton Adam Yates, who is fourth.

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