After the podium ceremony at Le Lioran, Tadej Pogačar made the maillot jaune’s sponsor-mandated appearance on France TV’s Vélo Club show, where French national coach Thomas Voeckler, moonlighting as a pundit in July, greeted him with his usual bonhomie.
Stage 11 of the Tour de France had been high on drama and Voeckler, in keeping with the enthusiastic tone of a programme where the most stringent criticism in recent years has been reserved for environmental protesters, was on hand to hype up the day’s action a little further.
