Two for Two. Pogacar reigns supreme in the Pyrenees on this #TDF2024 after another flawless stage win!
Here's the summary of stage 15. Sit back and relax, tomorrow is the rest day!
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Here's the summary of stage 15. Sit back and relax, tomorrow is the rest day!
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00:00Pogacar will try to jump across, you're not going to know that by now.
00:08Pogacar puts on the power, Vingegaard immediate reaction.
00:15Today he has a very, very strong attack.
00:17Vingegaard is still there, he refuses to accept that the yellow jersey is going to go away.
00:25When it was steep I was catching back sometimes,
00:27so I think he gained the most of the time when it was more flat,
00:31because he has his total power.
00:35Today was very short so to say,
00:39and I think the longer, the harder, the better it is for me.
00:43So in some kind of way it also gives confidence for tomorrow that that's a different climb.
00:50I don't see why today would be more suited for him compared to yesterday.
00:54Can you tell us exactly what the tactics are today and what the plan is?
00:58I don't see any UAE around.
01:00It's probably no secret we hope to make the day as hard as we possibly can with the team we have
01:06and just hope that his engine can beat Pogacar.
01:11We just have to believe in it still and believe our plan and then go for it.
01:16I guess you'll have to see.
01:20Stage 15
01:25Stage 15 is a Bastille Day beast.
01:27Almost 200km, 5 climbs and 4,800m of elevation gain.
01:33A fitting profile for the Queen stage of this Tour de France.
01:38This is a horrible start.
01:40It's one of those days that the climbers love and the sprinters will be dreading.
01:45They were climbing as soon as the flag dropped up the Col de Peyresourde.
01:50Towards the summit Romain Bardet attacked and he was followed by David Gaudu and Oya Lascano
01:55who continued their scrap for King of the Mountains points.
01:59The trio were caught on the descent before Bob Jungels sparked a move of nearly 20 riders
02:05before the next climb, the Col de Monte.
02:15Isma Lisebike take the front of this peloton, get themselves set for this descent.
02:24The breakaway heading over the Monte and the Col de Portet d'Aspes
02:27without building any kind of significant lead.
02:30There were now 15 up front including Carapaz, Hindley, Mass, Johannesson, De Ploes, Healy and Simon Yates.
02:39In the long valley before the penultimate difficulty, the Col de Agnes,
02:43the gap increased slightly to around three and a half minutes
02:46but there was still an awful lot of climbing on the menu.
02:53The team of Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe are really starting to put the pressure on at the front
02:59to see if they can build this advantage.
03:02That injection of pace reduced the front group to just four riders at the summit,
03:07Mass, De Ploes, Carapaz and Hindley, although Johannesson managed to catch up on the descent.
03:14Still, it didn't look like they had a big enough gap to go for the stage honours.
03:18Lawrence De Ploes, Jai Hindley, Richard Carapaz and Simon Yates
03:21are the top three riders to finish the stage.
03:25The team of Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe are really starting to put the pressure on at the front
03:29to see if they can build this advantage.
03:32That injection of pace reduced the front group to just four riders at the summit,
03:36Mass, De Ploes, Carapaz and Hindley, although Johannesson managed to catch up on the descent.
03:42That injection of pace reduced the front group to just four riders at the summit.
03:46Johannesson, De Ploes, Jai Hindley, Richard Carapaz, Enric Mass, Tobias Johannesson,
03:50Reach, Plata de Bay.
03:53Of course, still a hard fight to drop Pogacar.
03:55We need a big pull of Matteo for the first 20 minutes
03:58and then Jonas, you just have to use your TT after that
04:01and we believe in that he will get in problems.
04:05Here goes the attack of Carapaz.
04:07Look at the eyes of Richard Carapaz as he goes forward now to try and win the stage.
04:13This is the last turn of the pedals of Jorgensen and now we get the attack.
04:18Wengergaard attacks and Remco Evenepoel is not able to go with the acceleration immediately.
04:25Wengergaard starts the assault to try and take back some time.
04:30Remco Evenepoel trying to just calm down here and ride his way back at his own tempo.
04:37It is man against man again on this mountain
04:40as Pogacar looks for a drink and he gets it, sits up nice and comfortably.
04:44This rider is fully in control.
04:47Carapaz is looking strong even at this point.
04:50Just struggling a little bit on the wheel.
04:53Just hanging in there. It is going to be difficult for Carapaz.
05:01A little gap between the two wheels but he will always leave that just on Wengergaard's wheel.
05:06But Wengergaard is trying to up it a little bit more.
05:10And here is the attack and Pogacar now strikes.
05:14And this is the moment that Tadej Pogacar is going to put Jonas Wengergaard to the sword.
05:205.3 kilometers to go.
05:22Wengergaard looks around and it was almost that moment of
05:26I have done enough and I can't get rid of you.
05:28And Pogacar thinks right now I am going to put you completely out of the picture in this tour.
05:35Really good job. You did everything, Jonas.
05:38Pogacar is better than we have to accept this.
05:43This has been a massive day in the Tour de France.
05:46The 111th edition of the Tour.
05:48Jonas Wengergaard asked his Wismar Lisa bike team to ride all day in the mountains.
05:55They rode a massive tempo.
05:57Wengergaard tried to get rid of everybody.
06:00Wengergaard tried to get rid of everybody.
06:03But one rider had the answer.
06:05This rider heads now to the top of Plata de Bay.
06:09The Giro Tour double is on.
06:12This is a pivotal moment in the Tour de France.
06:16Tadej Pogacar, 14th stage win in his career.
06:20Jonas Wengergaard tried all day.
06:22He put his team on the front.
06:24He gave it a huge effort to try and make this stage his own.
06:30In the end, a moment of weakness capitalized by Tadej Pogacar.
06:41I would never imagine this kind of outcome after second week in the beginning.
06:46I'm super happy with my shape.
06:49Usually, I always struggle with the heat.
06:51Today, the team did a super good job with cooling me down and everything.
06:56It was an incredible day.
06:59Half of your stage victories have been here in the Pyrenees.
07:02I like them and they like me back.
07:05I'm pretty satisfied with that. Let's keep it that way.
07:11Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
07:13Back-to-back stage wins for Pogacar in yellow.
07:16His third of this edition and 14th in total.
07:20The Slovenian now has a considerable lead of 3 minutes and 9 seconds,
07:24while Wengergaard and Evenepoel are the only two riders within 10 minutes.
07:30Gemay took 15 points at the intermediate sprint despite a relegation,
07:34increasing his lead in green to 86 over Philipsen.
07:38Pogacar has tightened his grip on the polka dot jersey,
07:41which Wengergaard will continue to wear next week.
07:44The gap is 19 points.
07:49And Evenepoel leads the youth classification by a handsome margin
07:52of over 6 minutes from Carlos Rodriguez.