Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates) takes solo win on Pla d’Adet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease A Bike) battled to restrict his losses and crossed the road in second place(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates) made a press release on Pla d’Adet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Tadej Pogačar bridged as much as his UAE teammate Adam Yates on the Pla d’Adet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Ben Healy (EF Training-EasyPost) launched a solo transfer from the break on the ultimate climb of Pla d’Adet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) assaults the break on the Pla d’Adet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Yellow jersey Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates) flies down the descent of Col du Tourmalet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
UAE Workforce Emirates leads the peloton on the ascent of Col du Tourmalet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
USA champion Sean Quinn (EF Training-EasyPost) did loads of pacemaking within the break(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Tadej Pogačar bridged as much as his UAE teammate Adam Yates on the Pla d’Adet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Enormous crowds cheer on the lowered peloton on the ultimate ascent of Pla d’Adet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Followers cheer on the breakaway on the climb of Col du Tourmalet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Riders tackle the legendary Col du Tourmalet(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Nils Politt (UAE Workforce Emirates) did a lot of the pacemaking on the entrance of the sphere(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Magnus Cort (Uno-X Mobility) made it into the breakaway(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
World champion Mathieu Van Der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), and Lotto-Dstny duo of Arnaud de Lie and Cedric Beullens within the breakaway(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Ben Healy (EF Training-EasyPost) competes within the breakaway(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Peloton initially of stage 14 in Pau (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Yellow jersey Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates) visits the open air museum that pays tribute to the champions of the Tour de France previous to the beginning in Pau(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal QuickStep) within the white finest younger rider jersey meets with the media initially in Pau(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
On the primary summit end of the 2024 Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates) strengthened his maintain on the maillot jaune after an exciting end as much as Pla d’Adet noticed him trip away to a surprising solo victory on stage 14 to increase his lead over Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep).
It was a tactical masterclass from Pogačar’s crew within the Pyrenees, who after pacing for almost all the 152km stage, launched a transfer from Adam Yates 7.2km from the crest of the climb to behave as a satellite tv for pc rider, earlier than Pogačar then exploded from his two key rivals 4.2km from the road.
Yates then emptied the tank earlier than the race chief then greater than honoured the yellow jersey by driving solo by the packed crowds to a second stage win of the 2024 race some 39 seconds forward of Vingegaard in second and 1:10 to Evenepoel.
In a becoming parallel, Pogačar managed his thirteenth profession Tour stage win on a stage that began in the identical location as his first win in 2020 – Pau. However extra importantly, he made an enormous assertion in opposition to key rival Vingegaard, who did transfer as much as second forward of Evenepoel however now sits 1:57 from Pogačar.
10 years on from its final look and 50 years because it first featured within the Tour de France when Raymond Poulidour conquered it, the climb to Pla d’Adet performed host to a surprising end which noticed the subsequent memorable chapter within the Pogačar, Vingegaard face-off that continues to characterise the 2020s.
