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Tadej Pogačar has proven he's the best of all time, I don't see anyone challenging him for another two years – Sean Kelly's Tour column

Tadej Pogacar in the yellow jersey on the 14th stage of the Tour de France. Left: Sean Kelly's profile picture with 'column' wording (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP via Getty Images).

What can you say about Tadej Pogačar? Once again, he dominated the race from start to finish. There was talk before this Tour de France that Jonas Vingegaard might be that bit closer to Pogačar's level, but for the time the Dane was in the race, it didn't look that way.

The way he climbed Alpe d'Huez on stage 19, the record-breaking time that he ascended it and the time he took back on the breakaway, there's no other rider in the race able to live with him on that climb. He was so confident on that climb; you could tell from the moment he attacked, and I think he could have gone faster if he needed to – there are no words to explain how impressive it was from the Slovenian. We've seen so many great rides from Pogačar, but that was the best we've ever witnessed.

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