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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jeremy Whittle in Bordeaux

Tadej Pogacar’s Tour de France mastery leaves rivals in his wake and asking: ‘What now?’

Tadej Pogacar on the podium in Bordeaux
Tadej Pogacar on the podium in Bordeaux after an easier day in the saddle for the main contenders. Photograph: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images

Tim Merlier of the Soudal-Quick Step team won the seventh stage of the Tour de France in a classic sprinter’s finish on the banks of the Garonne in Bordeaux.

As the Tour headed away from the Pyrenees, through Gascony towards the Atlantic coast, a lull settled over a shell-shocked peloton as it came to terms with the demonstration of domination from Tadej Pogacar in Thursday’s mountain stage to Gavarnie-Gèdre.

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