Tadej Pogacar DESTROYS Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel on first mountain clash of 2025 - World Champion the new yellow jersey at Dauphiné
CyclingFriday, 13 June 2025 at 17:01
To the surprise of few, Tadej Pogacar has shown once again why he is currently the best professional cyclist in the world. The World Champion has soared to victory on stage 6 of the Criterium du Dauphiné, dropping Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel, winning in style and taking over the yellow jersey.
The stage began very fast once again and we've had another luxurious breakaway be formed in the hilly roads. Romain Bardet, Mathieu van der Poel, Alex Baudin, Michael Leonard, Bruno Armirail, Anthony Turgis and Andreas Leknessund. The group never managed to enjoy much of a lead though as several teams made the effort to keep things under control, and the pace was quite high all the way up into the penultimate climb of the day.
Team Visma | Lease a Bike rode a brutal pace on the penultimate climb, with Sepp Kuss launching an attack, but Pogacar responded comfortably. Despite having numerical advantage Visma couldn't do damage in this climb, and a very strong Tim Wellens controlled the GC group. until the summit, with only Enric Mas and Paul Seixas being able to follow the Visma and UAE riders.
Florian Lipowitz was there too, but briefly off the front, whilst Mas also gave it a go, but ultimately it was evident that the main action would be left to the final climb of the day.
On the ascent to Domancy UAE began the climb with it's puncheurs in front immediately setting a hellish pace. Jhonatan Narváez and Tim Wellens led out Tadej Pogacar and only Jonas Vingegaard held the wheel when the World Champion set off, but around 20 seconds later this was not possible and Pogacar went solo with 7 kilometers to go.
There was nothing that could be done at that point, with the differences made. Alex Baudin was caught and dropped quickly, and Pogacar continued to increase his gap to achieve a spotless victory that also took him to the yellow jersey. Jonas Vingegaard lost around a minute at the finish line, followed by Florian Lipowitz in third place - Remco Evenepoel defended himself but ultimately had to let go of the race lead.
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- Friendly = raising white flag? Wow, I never know that. /s I don't know why he complained about the way Vingo raced. That was one of the most aggressive version of Vingo. He attacked on the a sprint stage and went all out of the hilly stages, albeit not being able to beat Pogi there. How is that considered raising white flag?
KerisVroom20-06-2025 - Pidcock has always come across as arrogant and not particularly smart. I’m not surprised that he, his team, and their sponsor would do something like this—and to top it off, they released the video on the anniversary of Gino’s tragic death.
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- Jan Christen? Is that guy a team player? Why would you bring in a domestique who doesn't follow the team tactics to the biggest race of the year?KerisVroom20-06-2025
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- Happy you got that out?Mistermaumau20-06-2025
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- But he would be a wise man if he used the pre=condition "barring any unforseen event" in his prediction?FredMan20-06-2025
- This idiot seems to forget that a lot can happen in a 3 week race. It’s not just form, it’s a lot of luck too. All pog needs is for someone the peloton to take him out by accident and he could be out. Remember pundits declaring Remco was going to win in the giro the other year, only to crash in bad weatherCrashjames19-06-2025
The main data point was Remco. He really isn't future grand tour winner. Podium is more realistic. I love him as much as anyone but there are already other riders who can beat him over three weeks, and I don't mean Pog or Jonas.
Separately, Bora need to wake up and make Lipowitz their leader. They already wasted his talent last year by insisting he ride as support.
Remco is still a generational talent. In many other eras, he would be the dominant champion, like Froome, or Indurain. His chose the wrong time to be born.
So did Tom Danielson have a point after all? (On his article after the TT yesterday)
https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/american-ex-pro-believes-tadej-pogacar-purposely-held-back-in-dauphine-tt-may-sound-like-a-conspiracy-theory
The moral to this story is, never bet against Tadej lol
Yeah.... his form is terrible, he's lacking something ... bet Zonnefeld will find some excuse later
Well, that didn’t take long. Surprised that Evenepoel and Vingegaard both could not hold on, on what wasn’t the steepest or longest of climbs.
Evenepoel yes, Vin, that’s not his best terrain so if Tadej pushes he can have difficulties. Jonas is a diesel but may have been fitted with a turbo lately. We will see. They have a month to fine tune and adapt to what they learn of each other here.
Remco won’t be adapting. he will be nothing more than what we saw today. Jonas might. Tadej blew his doors off before “preseason” only to have Jonas win the tour. I don’t write him off yet.