Tadej Pogačar’s victory on stage 3 of the Tour de France has raised familiar concerns over his dominance of the race and the sport, with several pundits questioning the wisdom of he and his team’s tactics on Monday.
Stage 3 looked like a surefire breakaway day, but after a mammoth battle to form an escape, it was kept on a short leash by Visma-Lease a Bike before Pogačar’s UAE Team Emirates’ men buried themselves to chase it down and set up a sprint from a reduced peloton.
