The yellow jersey of Tour de France leader is firmly back on defending champion Tadej Pogacar’s shoulders, after the Slovene outsprinted rival Jonas Vingegaard to the win on stage seven in Mur-de-Bretagne.
Mathieu van der Poel had been in yellow by a margin of just one second after being in the breakaway on stage six, but the Dutchman could not replicate his heroics on the punishing Mur-de-Bretagne climb in 2021, when he attacked twice to take the overall lead and his maiden Tour stage win.