Tour de France: Pogacar pulls more than four minutes clear with stage 13 victory
The defending champion dominated the eight-kilometre climb at 7.9% to clock 23mins and beat Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard by a massive 36secs, a day after leaving his closest rival shattered in the first major mountain stage in the Pyrenees.
Fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic took third place, 1min 40secs off the pace, while Belgian Remco Evenepoel hung on to third place overall by the skin of his teeth following a disappointing effort that saw him finish 2min 39secs behind Pogacar.
After his fourth stage win in this year's race, UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider Pogacar leads Vingegaard by 4mins 7secs and Evenepoel by 7min 24secs. German Florian Lipowitz showed great form again and trails Evenepoel by six seconds.
Jeremy Whittle's report to follow
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