Matteo Trentin praises Tadej Pogacar after GC comeback in stage 6: "This is a master class, he is a champion"

Tadej Pogacar hit back hard in the stage to Cauterets-Cambasque. The Slovenian lost over a minute to Jonas Vingegaard the previous day but he has shown his class when he rose from ashes the very next day to take back half of the time he had lost. The gap between the two is thus reduced to just 25 seconds after six days of racing.

"Cool! It's even better than I thought," said teammate Matteo Trentin after the stage. "I only understood that he had won, but I didn't know that he had also taken seconds."

What does this mean for morale after yesterday didn't go too well for Pogacar? "That's what you make of it, you want to make big stories," Trentin laughed. "No, yesterday was his first really tough stage, so I think he kind of paid the toll for that. Today he strikes back. This is a master class, he is a champion. He knows how to do such things."

Felix Großschartner was also visibly happy with his leader's performance. "We have always believed in him," said the Austrian. "We fought back, it was a good day for us."