The Pyrenees: chapter 1
A first major challenge lay before the riders with the mythical Tourmalet before Hourquette d'Ancizan and then Pla d'Adet. A yellow-clad champion triumphed.
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A first major challenge lay before the riders with the mythical Tourmalet before Hourquette d'Ancizan and then Pla d'Adet. A yellow-clad champion triumphed.
⏪ Here's a summary of today's stage on the #TDF2024
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00:002 MONTHS BEFORE THE TOUR DE FRANCE
00:05Do you think it's possible to win the Tour de France 2 months after your big crash?
00:10To be honest, I don't know.
00:13It's a race that means a lot, not only for me, but for the three of us.
00:18Attack of Rade Bagacar, here he goes now!
00:21This is the moment, Wengergaard reacts straight away!
00:26I'm better than I have expected myself.
00:28Wengergaard has found his limits, Bagacar has asked the big question,
00:33do you have it or do you not?
00:36I will of course do my best to try to follow Taddej.
00:40I was watching Remco, he was watching me, we could go together.
00:44Unfortunately Jonas decided to not ride with us,
00:47which is understandable, but also not understandable, so it's a bit of their tactics.
00:53I wouldn't say lack of balls, I would just say riding smart.
00:56Taddej Bagacar's generation!
00:59And Remco Evenepoel is cracking again on the climb.
01:04You work together, you're a pocket legend, you're close to the champion.
01:10Victory for Jonas Vingegaard!
01:12Now we can all say that it's a fair fight, that he's in top shape.
01:16It was a very good duel.
01:18I think it's great for the sport, two massive champions,
01:21the best two in the world going at it against each other.
01:25Contrasting styles also I think makes it more exciting as well.
01:29It's fantastic for the tour and I think there's still a lot to come.
01:32Last week and a half will be really epic to watch.
01:35A lot of conversation going on between Adam Yates and Bagacar.
01:39So we all think something is coming, is it going to come or not?
01:47Stage 14 takes us into the Pyrenees with the iconic Tourmalet,
01:50the Horquette d'Anciens and a brutal finish to Pla-de-Dé.
01:54Time for the GC duel to take centre stage.
02:13Another attack.
02:16Try to get there guys, come on.
02:18Big effort.
02:20Now another big attack from Lotto Destiny and Arnaud Deleu putting in a massive attack.
02:26It took around 50km for a breakaway to form with eight riders going clear,
02:31including Deleu, Court, Vauquelin and van der Poel.
02:34But they soon had a group of 15 on their tail.
02:37Among the chasers were the top two in the green jersey competition,
02:41Guillaumet and Philipsen, who were eyeing up the early intermediate sprints.
02:44Plus a host of climbers who were hoping to go clear on the Tourmalet.
03:02The breakaway was whittled down to ten riders on the early slopes of the Tourmalet.
03:06Van der Poel, Court, Healy, Menckes, Lascano, Amirai, Kwiatkowski,
03:10Godou, Lutsenko and Quinn on the front here.
03:13But UAE were in one of those moods,
03:16keeping the gap at around four minutes for Taddei Pogacar.
03:23Good job guys, we're trying to push them, but I think everyone is a bit scared.
03:27Now I don't know what we've got for the stage.
03:34Here goes an attack from Van der Poel.
03:37Here goes an attack.
03:40David Godou decides to time a little attack and go clear.
03:45Well, Lascano ended up pipping Godou to the summit of the Tourmalet
03:49before a fast descent.
03:51Ten then became five on the Orquette de Ancizan.
03:54Menckes, Healy, Kwiatkowski, Godou and Lascano leading,
03:58the latter two continuing their battle for mountains points.
04:01But the GC group was closing fast with the gap down to a minute 30.
04:07We're about to go on to the climb of the final part of today's stage.
04:12Here we go.
04:14Ben Healy accompanied by Godou.
04:17Two in the lead.
04:19One minute 15.
04:25Godou.
04:27Look at that.
04:29You just saw the grimace on the face of David Godou.
04:32He cannot go with the acceleration.
04:33Ben Healy, the Irishman from EF Education Easy Post,
04:37now goes for glory.
04:40And there we go.
04:42And here we go.
04:44He's told Adam Yates to go on the attack.
04:46We don't care about Simon, but Adam Yates.
04:49So we have to, of course, make sure that when Pogacar jumps across.
04:52It's just about now to catch Ben Healy.
04:55And there we go.
04:57This is the attack.
04:59Pogacar.
05:00This is the attack.
05:02Pogacar puts on the power.
05:05Wengergaard, immediate reaction.
05:08Closing in, he can't.
05:10He looks behind to see what the situation is.
05:12And he's unable to close the gap on Pogacar.
05:15Remco Evenepoel now strikes up to the wheel of Wengergaard.
05:19He looks OK.
05:21Two in the lead now.
05:23Two in the lead.
05:25Two teammates.
05:27Adam Yates accompanied by Tadej Pogacar.
05:28Ben Healy has been caught off guard.
05:35Look at the pace now.
05:37And he gets rid of Remco Evenepoel.
05:40There are so many people urging on this Slovenian superstar to the top of this mountain.
05:46Wengergaard is still there.
05:48He refuses to accept that the yellow jersey is going to go away.
05:5220 seconds ahead on Wengergaard.
05:5520 seconds on Wengergaard.
05:58The question now is how much time will he take?
06:02Tadej Pogacar at the top of the climb of Pla D'Ade.
06:06He is going to win this stage.
06:09Stage 14.
06:11The yellow jersey.
06:13Tadej Pogacar comes round the final turn.
06:16And he has dealt a hammer blow to the hopes of Wengergaard.
06:21Pogacar wins stage 14.
06:23A Herculean effort on the final climb.
06:26Today was a proper demonstration of power.
06:29Used the team right.
06:31Played it perfectly with Yates.
06:33It's going to be almost 40 seconds.
06:36He ships 39 seconds on the day.
06:40Evenepoel finishes third on the day.
06:44And he's third in the Tour.
06:57To win the Tour de France stage itself is something I was never thinking of when I was a kid.
07:09If you chase your dreams, you can catch them.
07:19He deserved the victory today, so congrats to him.
07:22It was really an impressive ride he did.
07:25And there's a new day tomorrow and hopefully I can make a difference there instead.
07:30Another demonstration from Pogacar and his team today.
07:34It's his 13th stage win at the Tour.
07:36And on six of those occasions Wengergaard has come second.
07:41The Slovenian thus tightens his grip on yellow.
07:44He now leads Wengergaard by a minute and 57 with Evenepoel at 2 minutes 22.
07:48Guillermay took a few points at the intermediate sprint today.
07:51He leads Philipsen by 76 in the fight for green.
07:56Pogacar has also increased his lead in the mountains classification to 13 points over Wengergaard.
08:02And Evenepoel, who's now third overall, still holds the white jersey by 3 minutes and 47 seconds from Rodriguez.
08:08And Evenepoel, who's now third overall, still holds the white jersey by 3 minutes and 47 seconds from Rodriguez.