Already in the yellow jersey, Tadej Pogacar won the 7th stage at the Super Planche des Belles Filles on Friday July 8, 2022. He further consolidates his leader’s tunic.
Having become a classic of the Great Loop, the Vosges climb (7 km at 8.7% average gradient), offered this year in “Super Planche” configuration, smiled on the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar who won like the day before. Pogacar won his second consecutive stage in this Tour de France. This time he narrowly edged the Dane Jonas Vingegaard in the first finish at the top of the race.
Before tackling this climb dear to Frenchman Thibaut Pinot, whose village of Mélisey is nestled less than twenty kilometers away, two third category passes (Col de Grosse Pierre, Col des Croix) had to be climbed. Thibaut Pinot was dropped at the end of the stage in the last difficulty.
It was in the same place that Pogacar had sealed his first coronation on these slopes by overthrowing Primoz Roglic in the time trial of the 20th stage of the Tour de France 2020. My family will be there and my girlfriend will be on top “, had specified the day before the yellow jersey, adding that he wanted to try to win the stage. Those close to him must have realized that no one is capable at the moment of putting the young man in difficulty, who has still crushed the competition. As the mountain arrives, we wonder who will be able to overturn the table in a crossing of the Alps which promises to be scorching.
Behind the first two of the 2021 Tour, the Slovenian Primoz Roglic took third place of the day, twelve seconds, ahead of the German Lennard Kämna, caught 80 meters from the line. Briton Geraint Thomas and Frenchman David Gaudu limited the loss of time to less than 20 seconds compared to Pogacar. In the general classification, Pogacar increased his advantage over Vingegaard to 35 seconds. Geraint Thomas, third, is clocked in at 1 min 10 sec. The 23-year-old Slovenian now has eight stage successes in the Tour de France, of which he has twice won the final classification (2020 and 2021).
General classification of the Tour de France after the seventh stage:
1. Tadej Pogacar (SLO/UAE) 24:43:14.
2. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN / JUM) at 35 seconds.
3. Geraint Thomas (GBR/INE) 1:10.
4. Adam Yates (GBR/INE) 1:18.
5. David Gaudu (FRA/GFJ) 1:31.
6. Romain Bardet (FRA/DSM) 1:32.
7. Thomas Pidcock (GBR/INE) 1:35.
8. Neilson Powless (USA/EF1) 1:37.
9. Enric Mas (ESP/MOV) 1:43.
10. Daniel Martinez (COL/INE) 1:55.