2024 Tour de France stage 19 GC Update: Tadej Pogacar wraps things up on Isola 2000, destroying Vingegaard & Evenepoel

Stage 19 of the Tour de France 2024 was extremely important in the fight for the general classification. On the slopes of Isola 2000 however, Tadej Pogacar was again completely dominant, leaving Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel trailing in his wake.

It was nothing more and nothing less than Tadej Pogacar's complete destruction of his rivals. With a move around 9 km from the finish, on the final ascent to Isola 2000, the Slovenian soon left behind a Vingegaard who had already given up the Tour de France when he saw the brutal pace of the UAE leader, and who focused from that moment on defending 2nd place over Evenepoel, with whom he was going to arrive together at the finish line.

Behind, Joao Almeida kept 4th place, already more than 8 minutes behind Evenepoel, followed by the Spanish duo of Mikel Landa, 5th, less than 30 seconds behind the Portuguese, and Carlos Rodriguez who was once again dropped a little earlier than his rivals. The INEOS Grenadiers leader finished almost two minutes behind Landa, and is far behind in the standings despite maintaining 6th place.

Rounding out the Top 10 are Adam Yates, who maintains 7th position, Derek Gee, up one place and now 8th, Matteo Jorgenson in 9th position having moved up 5 places due to his finish from the breakaway, 2nd behind Pogacar, and Giulio Ciccone is 10th having lost two positions after being left relatively early on Isola 2000.