The Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar (United Arab Emirates) won the sixth stage of the Tour de France on Thursday and became the leader of the general classification, in exchange for Wout van Aert, who walked more than a hundred kilometers on foot.
On the longest day of the 109th edition, encouraged by the Belgian’s escape from the Jumbo-Visma, who lost the yellow card after walk about 130 kilometers aheadThe reigning two-time Tour champion was the first to cross the finish line, covering the 219.9 kilometers between Binche, Belgium, and Longwy in 04:27.13 hours, ahead of Australian Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco) and Frenchman David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), second and third respectively.
Pogacar will undertake the first mountain stage of this Tour on Friday, a link of 176.3 kilometers between Tomblaine and top of the Super Planche des Belles Filleswith four seconds ahead of the American Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) and 31 over the Danish Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), the “runner up” of the Tour2021, who is now third.
Source: Observadora
