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'We will need to survive as well as possible' - Tour de France leader Tadej Pogačar hints at quiet start to tough trio of climbing stages in race

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Pogacar in the yellow jersey holding flowers gives a thumbs up on the podium.

After all the fireworks of the Pyrenees and the Massif Central, there's no knowing when Tour de France leader Tadej Pogačar will next go on the rampage in the mountains in this year's race. However, the UAE Team Emirates-XRG leader has said that he hopes that when the race hits the Vosges late on Friday afternoon, things will stay quiet.

Pogačar's logic, he explained in a succinct post-stage press conference on Thursday evening, is that since the big mountain stages will be on Saturday to Le Markstein and then on stage 15 to Plateau de Salaison in the Alps, he won't have any complaints if Friday's stage is much calmer.

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