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Alasdair Fotheringham

Tadej Pogacar: Today was worse than the Col de Granon stage in the 2022 Tour de France

UAE Team Emirates' Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar wearing the best young rider's white jersey (R) and UAE Team Emirates' Spanish rider Marc Soler (L) cycle in the ascent of Col de la Loze in the final kilometres of the 17th stage of the 110th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 166 km between Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and Courchevel, in the French Alps, on July 19, 2023. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

Any lingering hope that Tadej Pogačar might have nursed a comeback in the Tour de France evaporated completely around eight kilometres from the summit of the interminable Col de La Loze on Wednesday.

As the Slovenian slid slowly but surely out of the back of the yellow jersey group on stage 17, if reversing the tendency set by his time trial defeat on Tuesday already seemed difficult, on Wednesday, it simply became impossible.

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