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‘Tadej is on one other planet’ – Pogačar strides nearer to Tour de France victory with placing Plateau de Beille file


Because the Tour de France hit the foot of Plateau de Beille on Sunday afternoon, a graphic appeared on the display screen with the main points of the climb. Viewers have been knowledgeable the ascent was 15.8km lengthy and the typical gradient was 7.9%, and so they have been additionally instructed that the quickest time up the climb had been recorded by Thibaut Pinot.

This was true solely to a degree. Pinot’s time of 45:08, clocked on the Tour’s final go to in 2015, was the quickest time recorded on the Strava app. In a special and extra analogue age, nevertheless, the late Marco Pantani had clocked a time of 43:20 on the 1998 Tour, whereas Jamie Burrow was reputed to have been even faster when the under-23 Ronde de l’Isard got here up right here the subsequent 12 months.

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