As the Tour de France’s first half approaches its conclusion, it’s Tadej Pogačar who is – predictably – in yellow and in charge, with his two main rivals, Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard, sitting 54 and 77 seconds adrift, respectively, ahead of the Bastille Day battle in the Massif Central on stage 10.
They’re not massive time gaps, but as the mountains finally appear, the prevailing thought is that Pogačar is in the driving seat and en-route to his fourth Tour title.
