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00:05Think we we might expect a very long fight for a big breakaway and another big move yet again
00:12Lots of attacks lots going on. So yeah, it might be a double race in in the race itself
00:18I think a breakaway race and maybe a GC race behind look at the speed of Adam Yates
00:23Pogacar is ready to strike any moment now
00:26I think somebody like Romain Bardet will be very very motivated and actually, I hope he can take the stage tomorrow
00:35My reflection is that it's my last Tour de France
00:49Maybe what you've been doing for the last 10 years
00:51It's been 10 years in this race, with goals that are sometimes difficult to achieve and with little satisfaction at the end
01:00When you play the GC, it's a stress of every moment. Once you've made a breakaway, you're already thinking about the next stage
01:09You're fighting for something that is so precarious and that holds on to you, and it's that in a moment, everything can stop
01:16It's the energy that you've put into it, that reduces to zero. So it's difficult to appreciate the Tour in these conditions
01:30The cry is to be free, to let go of your instincts
01:36Stage 11
01:40Stage 11 is the second longest of this Tour, featuring a series of short but steep climbs in the final 50km
01:47It looked perfect for a breakaway, but would they get the green light from the GC favourites?
01:54Attacks immediately from the front of the peloton with 210km of racing to go
02:00Big acceleration from the team of EF
02:03They're looking pretty strong as they go away, clearly on very good form in this race
02:11Big counter-attack comes now from the front of the peloton as riders try and get away
02:17After a fast and furious start, Richard Carapaz finally sparked a move that stuck, going clear with Matteo Verche after 80km
02:26On the first climb they were joined by Carapaz's team mate Ben Healy, Oscar Onley, Oya Lascano and the French champion Paul Lepera, so six now in the lead
02:39And the group would swell to ten with four more Frenchmen bridging across, Romain Gregoire, Guillaume Martin, Julien Bernard and Bruno Amirai
02:48The gap to the peloton was slim though, only around two minutes
02:52Welland and Pollitt doing a fantastic job for Tadej Pogacar today
03:00UAE Team Emirates shutting the race down and keeping the escapees on a tight leash
03:05And they began to hoover them up once they reached the last four climbs
03:10Lascano and Healy proved to be the strongest of the breakaway riders, but this wasn't going to be their day
03:16It would be a battle for the big guns
03:18This race is being exploded by Adam Yates
03:22He's about to put everybody under massive, massive pressure
03:35And the attack! Here's the attack of Pogacar
03:39And now the tornado strikes and strikes hard
03:42And Wengergaard isn't there this time
03:45Look at the acceleration
03:46Roglic tried to go, he could do nothing
03:49Here goes Wengergaard, but Pogacar in the yellow jersey goes flying with 31.5km to go
03:56Well you said he was going to attack over the top and use the descent
03:59But Wengergaard is coming back steadily now on the climb
04:03Roglic is hanging in
04:12Throws it into the next turn
04:14What's the gap back to Wengergaard?
04:17He's using his territory to really good effect
04:2012 seconds, the gap is opening even more
04:23Pogacar leans that right shoulder into that next turn
04:26Who's coming back now?
04:28The answer is, wow, look at the speed of Roglic
04:31Roglic is dropping like a stone off the top of the Pouimaree
04:35They've also got, I think, João Almeida in this group
04:39Ciccone is in this group
04:40They've caught Evenepoel, they've caught the white jersey
04:48He's going to go into that climb with about 35 seconds advantage
04:53Can he now increase his lead?
04:56We haven't seen too many grimaces ever in the Tour de France on the face of Jonas Wengergaard
05:01But today, Tadej Pogacar is making him hurt
05:04And Remco Evenepoel is cracking again on the climb of the Portus
05:09So Wengergaard and Roglic go forward
05:16And Roglic now cracks
05:18Suddenly, Roglic comes to a standstill
05:21He cannot go with the pace that Wengergaard is setting
05:26There's the yellow jersey
05:28Where is Jonas Wengergaard?
05:29770 meters to go to the top
05:32And the gap is starting to diminish quickly
05:49The blow has been dealt
05:51Wengergaard comes back
05:54Wengergaard fighting his way back to Begapi
05:56Wengergaard fighting his way back to Pogacar
05:59And the two superstars then decided to work together
06:02With Evenepoel and Roglic chasing hard
06:05The Fantastic Four lighting up this Tour de France
06:09And I'm pretty sure Pogacar cannot drop you anymore
06:12I'm pretty sure Pogacar cannot drop you anymore
06:14So when you work together, I think it's better
06:16To keep Remco and Primoz behind
06:18Because otherwise the bonus will be gone
06:20And just win most likely
06:22Oh, crash!
06:24A crash here of Roglic
06:26Roglic has hit the deck
06:29Pogacar is ready
06:31Wengergaard is set
06:33And now they start to kick
06:35Pogacar's second wheel
06:37Wengergaard wants to have the mental blow
06:39Of beating Pogacar to the line
06:41It's a flat-out sprint between the two of them
06:43Who's going to win this stage?
06:45Look at Pogacar go, look at Wengergaard
06:47It's going to be a photo finish
06:49Who took the stage?
06:51I think it might be Wengergaard
06:53Wengergaard celebrates, sits up
07:07Yeah, it's of course very, very emotional for me
07:13Yeah, sorry
07:15Coming back from the crash
07:17Yeah
07:20Sorry
07:26We can see that
07:28Yeah, it's now
07:30Now we can all say that it's a fair fight
07:32That he's in top shape
07:37Yeah, let's continue the tour like this
07:40Wengergaard beating Pogacar in a sprint
07:42For the first time in his career
07:43Wengergaard beating Pogacar in a sprint
07:45For the first time to take his fourth tour stage win
07:48Roglic given the same time as Evenepoel
07:50After his late crash
07:52We've clearly got a battle on our hands
07:54For the yellow jersey
07:56Pogacar increasing his lead to a minute and six
07:58Over Evenepoel
08:00No action in the points classification today
08:02Gemay remains 74 points clear of Philipsen
08:04Before a couple of sprint days
08:06But we do have a new king of the mountains
08:09Pogacar takes the polka dots from Abrahamson
08:11After grabbing 16 points
08:13And finally
08:15Evenepoel has increased his lead in white
08:17To over three and a half minutes