After nine days of racing at this year’s Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar of UAE Team Emirates is still decisively in the yellow jersey. His margin of 33 seconds over Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) might not be a race-winning margin - a Tour hasn’t been won by less since 2007 - but it does mean he is in control of the race.
The reasons for this are clear: there have been few stages with gaps on general classification so far, just stage four in the Alps and the stage seven time trial. On stage nine, the gravel day, things threatened to be blown apart, but in the end, there was no change.
