Ben Healy surged clear with 42km to go and easily held off the chasers to take a heroic solo victory on Stage 6 of the Tour de France. The Irishman’s charge shook up the general classification, while Mathieu van der Poel took back the yellow jersey from Tadej Pogacar by just one second after a gutsy finish to the undulating stage through Normandy.
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Tadej Pogacar is into the yellow jersey for the first time at the 2025 Tour de France as Remco Evenepoel produced a mesmerising individual time trial to win Stage 5 in Caen. Evenepoel needed to overturn a 58-second deficit on Pogacar to take yellow, but the defending champion produced a blistering ride of his own to seize the overall lead as his big rival Jonas Vingegaard shipped buckets of time.
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The final day of the 2024 Tour de France bucked the trend with a time trial between Monaco and Nice instead of a processional parade in Paris – but the result was the same, with the relentless Tadej Pogacar wrapping up the overall win with a sixth stage victory. Pogacar beat rivals Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel in the race of truth as an emotional Mark Cavendish rode off into the sunset.
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One of the most picturesque days of the 2024 Tour de France saw the riders head up into the South Alps above Nice, but it took until the final climb for the GC tussle to kick off. Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard were the initial instigators, but the peerless Tadej Pogacar had the last laugh, soaring across the line for his fifth win of this edition.
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Tadej Pogacar – who else? Some thought the Slovenian would suffer in the high-mountain territory of closest GC rival Jonas Vingegaard on Friday’s Stage 19, but it was the total opposite as Pogacar, aided by his UAE Team Emirates team-mates, rode on the front of the main bunch for most of the day before detonating a late attack that left everyone in the dust, to all but secure his third Tour title.
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