It says a lot about the scale of Tadej Pogačar's superiority in this year's Tour de France than just seconds after praising key rival Jonas Vingegaard's performance in the mountains, he then added that the Danish star is not, in his opinion, as strong as he has been in previous years.
For Pogačar, you could easily say that stage 14 was a 'business as usual' victory. When the Slovenian charged away alone on the upper slopes of the brutally difficult Col du Haag, only one result was really possible: yet another triumph - this one the 25th stage of his career and fourth in exactly a fortnight of racing in this year's Tour, and an even greater advantage overall. With 4:30 on Vingegaard, barring absolute disaster in the seven days of racing that remain, a fifth outright Tour victory is clearly Pogačar's for the asking.
