Tadej Pogacar seals century of wins with thrilling sprint success

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rider to reach 100 expert wins.Oscar Onley, the 22-year-old Scot riding his 2nd Tour, was 4th on the phase as he was able to hang with an elite group of riders on a lumpy finish to the phase from Amiens, with all 5 categorised climbs up in the last 50 of the 174 kilometres.Lenny Martinez, the last survivor of a four-man breakaway, was collected with around 20km left as Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad and Vingegaard’s Visma-Lease A Bike team came forward, quickly making a significant choice in the peloton as few might keep with the pace.Pogacar tried to attack on the steepest area of the last categorised climb, where gradients strike 15 percent on the Rampe Saint-Hilaire, quickly distancing Vingegaard, who was the only man who could follow before getting back onto his rival’s wheel by the summit.Remco Evenepoel dragged a handful of riders back across to

the leading set on the descent into Rouen, Van der Poel amongst them, but there would be no beating the world champ to victory.”I think today I got very, really near to the limitation,”Pogacar stated.” I attempted with an attack on the last climb and then Jonas followed me and whatever came together. Pogacar and Vingegaard were once again a cut above the remainder of the field(AFP/Getty) “Joao [Almeida] did such a remarkable job to lead me out up until the very end, even if individuals were assaulting so I’m very happy and proud of the group today, it’s fantastic and I’m simply without words, it’s such a good success.”To win at the Trip is unbelievable, to do it in this jersey much more so and to win 100 success is amazing … We will see [about taking yellow], tomorrow is the real test. Already to win a phase in this jersey for me it’s enough, I just go on enjoying this race. Obviously we go for yellow and we will see.”Evenepoel conceded another three seconds to Pogacar and Vingegaard, leaving him 58

seconds off yellow, while Primoz Roglic lost 32 seconds to fall one minute 27 seconds down.Onley’s efficiency was enough to lift the Group Picnic-PostNL rider up to seventh overall, 55 seconds down. “It was pretty cool,”the Scot said of being in the mix. “It doesn’t get much larger than this in terms of races and rivals so it’s great to show to myself that I can be there right at the

top.”