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With headwinds but also with a monstrous Visma | Lease a Bike: Pogacar shatters old Mont Ventoux record
XRG stormed up the “Bald Mountain,” initiated by rival Jonas Vingegaard’s attack, and still managed to sprint two seconds clear of the Dane at the summit. With this blistering climb, Pogacar smashed the long-standing record of Iban Mayo.
Valentin Paret-Peintre kept his cool in a furnace of pressure and heat, delivering a thunderous victory atop the legendary Mont Ventoux to give France its first win in this year's Tour de France during a breathtaking Stage 16 on Tuesday.
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How can Visma and Vingegaard make up 4 minutes? "They were better on the Ventoux," says Zonneveld
and maybe even a bigger one than Simon Yates had of winning the Giro d’Italia, which he did. On Mont Ventoux, we saw Pogacar grimace for the first time while following Vingegaard’s wheel. “It wasn’t just the grimace, it was also the fact that ...
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