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the slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) has won this Thursday the sixth stage of the Tour de France 2023disputed over 144.9 kilometers between Tarbes and Cauterets Cambasque, after leaving behind his direct rival, the Danish Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), with two kilometers to go and reaching the finish line alone with an advantage of 27 seconds. Despite coming second Vingegaard is the new leader of the race.

Has been a day to rememberin which, Pogacar has shown that the Tour is very much alive and that, with more than two weeks of the race ahead, nothing has been decided. In the Marie Blanque, the Slovenian from the UAE was left on the ropes, without answer to the attack of the Dane from the Jumbo-Visma; On the Tourmalet, the next day, however, he has reliably kept up with his rival, who has been perfectly supported by his team, and he has done the same in Cauterets, when, with 4.5 kilometers to go, Vingegaard He has launched for the victory. With just over two kilometers of climbing to go, Pogacar got up from the saddle and left behind the new leader of the race, who was 24 seconds behind the winner.

A large and high-level escape

The script for the second and last Pyrenean stage of the 110th edition of the Tour has been, from the beginning, similar to the one that the first one had on Wednesday. Like the day before, a numerous and high-level getaway, in which several men who were also on the run the day before have entered; there they have been, among others, Julian Alaphilippe, Wout van Aert, Neilson Powless, Mathieu van der Poel, a great Gorka Izagirre or Michal Kwiatkowski.

On the climb to Aspin, those in the lead have increased their advantage over the peloton to more than three minutes, and, already in the Tourmalet, the difference has been around five. At that point, Van Aert has taken command in the group of escapees, which has been rapidly reduced; A striking situation arose: in the lead, a man from Jumbo-Visma, Wout van Aert, was pulling hard, while behind, in the group of the strongest in the general classification, his teammates also set a strong pace to wear down the leader, Hindley, and his team, the BORA.

It was the prelude to what was going to happen less than three kilometers from crowning the Tourmalet. Vingegaard was left alone in the lead with his teammate Sepp Kuss, together with Pogacar, and he immediately attacked, taking the Slovenian to his wheel, but not Hindley. The final stretch of the mythical Pyrenean port has seen how the two great favorites to win the Tour, Vingegaard and Pogacar, have made a spectacular ascent. They have reached the top about 40 seconds behind those in the lead, whom they have reached on the descent. Hindley, meanwhile, has not resisted the strength of his rivals, and soon fell behind, two minutes behind with 25 kilometers to go, when Pogacar and Vingegaard were already at the head of the race.

Van Aert, who put in an outstanding performance, like all of Jumbo-Visma despite the final resolution of the race, led the leading group up the toughest stretch of the climb to Cauterets. Vingegaard, who seemed to be going as strong as Wednesday, attacked decisively with more than four kilometers of climbing still to complete; but as in the Tourmalet, Pogacar has not detached from him. Hindley, meanwhile, was shooting in a group that also included Jonathan Castroviejo (INEOS) and Mikel Landa and Pello Bilbao (Bahrain-Victorious); the stage and the yellow jersey were ahead, in the fight between the leaders of Jumbo-Visma and UAE Emirates.

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Source: Eitb

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