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‘I’m not a cannibal, I eat sweets’ – stage-chomping Tadej Pogačar takes giant step towards Tour de France victory

'I'm not a cannibal, I eat sweets' - stage-chomping Tadej Pogačar takes giant step towards Tour de France victory


Tour de France race leader Tadej Pogačar’s latest devastating climbing performance on the road to Isola 2000 both put the yellow jersey out of reach for his rivals and simultaneously confirmed that come Sunday evening, barring total disaster, a historic Giro d’Italia-Tour ‘double’ will be forming part of his palmares.

Before stage 19 and the Tour’s assault on the highest paved mountain pass in France, La Bonette-Restefond, and a brutally difficult ascent to Isola 2000, there was still room for Visma-Lease A Bike to hope that Jonas Vingegaard could yet turn the tables on Pogačar. 

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