Final fireworks of Pogacar in the magic mountain

• Classification This is the general

Like the murderer who always returns to the scene of the crime.

Like the lover who longs for the scene of romance.

Tadej Pogacar returned to the top where it all started.

On those endless ramps where he defeated Roglic and was crowned, in 2020, as the winner of the earliest Tour in history.

The time trial of the Super Planche des Belles Filles exalted a beardless 21-year-old.

And this Friday, the Slovenian phenomenon returned to his favorite place dressed in his fetish garment, that yellow jersey that distinguishes the chosen one, to sign another anthological page of the Tour.

Agonizing triumph of phenomenon in the magic mountain.

A tremendous blow to the kidneys in a 'sterrato' wall to overcome

by only two meters , who dared to challenge the monarch in a heart attack ending.

Pogacar climbed the last stretch with his feet, with great self-confidence, but without the ease of other occasions, but yes, masterfully calculating the time and distance with his main enemy.

And it is that the last wall of the Vosges mountain had an infernal slope.

Some walked up it.

The Slovenian adds his second consecutive victory in this Tour, the 42nd of his brief and brilliant career.

The first hilltop finish served to gauge the actual state of the candidates for the podium in Paris.

Pogacar and Vingegaad are one step above.

Until Thursday, the stages were long successions of obstacles erected to trip and wear down the weakest and most unfortunate.

This Friday was a climb to a hard port of seven kilometers, with an average slope close to 9% and a maximum of 24%.

Cycling of extreme efforts, the one that dazzles the public.

Erviti's escape

The race was relatively calm until the peloton accelerated to neutralize the escapees of a day in which, finally, a Spaniard got into the good breakaway.

, the experienced Movistar domestique, shared a break with

(B&B Hotels),

(Bora),

(Bora),

(BikeExchange),

(Cofidis),

(Bahrain).

A small group that never had an income greater than four minutes.

Erviti disregarded with 8 kilometers to go, to protect

on the ascent to the Super Planche.

The Balearic was hidden, climbing with difficulties.

In the first big date with the mountain, a sieve appeared in the general classification, with the disappearance of the first places of

.

,

,

and

went naked on the first ramps

The summit of the Vosges, premiered in 2012, with

's stage victory and

wearing the leader's jersey, now belongs to Pogacar, the cannibal that overwhelms with its splendid conditions.

He manages the race at his whim.

He sets the pace and decides when to draw the spears.

This Friday he left everything for a last and memorable kilometer of dirt.

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