Pogacar closing in on third Tour de France title after dominant win in the Alps

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00:00This Saturday is the penultimate stage of the Tour de France, a short punishing route with almost

00:054,800 meters of elevation. On Friday, Taddei Pogacar continues his domination of the race

00:13in the Alps with just nine kilometers to go in the stage. He made his attack and made up almost

00:19three minutes to catch and pass American Matteo Jorgensen. Pogacar won his fourth stage, substantially

00:26extending his overall lead. James Messina has more on what to expect this Saturday.

00:33Well, after his monumental victory yesterday, Taddei Pogacar said that he'll be letting the

00:38breakaway group take the lead and he'll be from what we can expect, cycling his way nice and

00:42easily up to the Col de la Couillole. Not an easy stage to come today. There are some big climbs,

00:47maybe not quite as big as yesterday's ones, but still 4,600 meters for the riders to go up in

00:54total. So Taddei Pogacar will be holding on to that steady lead. He's got over five minutes

00:59over Jonas Vingegaard, last year's winner, which all he needs to do now is just keep that lead

01:03to be able to win the Tour nice and comfortably. But this might be a chance for the Belgian Remco

01:08Evenpool to jump ahead of last year's winner. Today's stage might be his last opportunity to do

01:13so. So in those climbs, Remco Evenpool will be trying to get ahead and perhaps we'll see

01:18the likes of Jorgensen as yesterday or Carapaz, who will be wearing that polka dot jersey,

01:22to also go and win that stage. It's going to be one not then for Pogacar, but perhaps we'll get

01:26a new name or a familiar name who will be winning that stage today as we make our way back up into

01:31the Auxerre to the High Alps here in the south of France. This before tomorrow's time trial,

01:35which will be taking place along the coast from Monaco to Nice.

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