Tadej Pogacar DESTROYS Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel on first mountain clash of 2025 - World Champion the new yellow jersey at Dauphiné

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.