Tadej Pogacar continued to claw back time on overall leader Jonas Vingegaard with a late, brutal uphill sprint to drop the defending champion in the finale of Friday's 13th stage of the Tour de France at the top of the Col du Grand Colombier and put his rival under immense pressure.
The Slovenian, Tour winner in 2020 and 2021, stood on the pedals inside the last kilometre and launched a furious sprint with Denmark's Vingegaard holding his wheel before losing the slipstream and four seconds on the line.
Pogacar, who picked up four bonus seconds, trails Vingegaard by nine seconds in the general classification, keeping the Jumbo-Visma rider on his toes ahead of two awe-inspiring stages in the Alps. Belgian Maxim Van Gils was the only other breakaway rider to hold off Pogacar as he zig-zagged over the line for second, his face a pale mask of pain.In a carbon copy of last Sunday's finale to the Puy de Dome, Vingegaard limited the damage to take fourth place with Britain's Pidcock fifth, 1:03 off the pace.
Australian Jai Hindley cemented his third place in the overall standings by taking sixth place, a further two seconds behind.Saturday's 14th stage is a gruelling Alpine effort over 152 kilometres ending in Morzine after a tricky descent from the punishing Col de Joux Plane, a 11.6km ascent at 8.1%.
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