The Tour de France is accustomed to Tadej Pogačar masterclasses. He’s been coming here for seven years now, and each and every year – even in 2022 and 2023 when he was beaten to the yellow jersey – he delivers an exhibition or six (as in 2024).
Almost all of his 23 stage wins have been greeted with a sense of inevitability – the best bike rider of all time just doing best bike rider of all time things – but his stage six win in the Pyrenees produced a different reaction to what has come before.
