Cycling - Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 - Tadej Pogacar : "Visma ? I didn't like when they..."

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14/06/2025

Et de trois pour Tadej Pogacar sur ce Critérium du Dauphiné ! Au lendemain de sa démonstration de force à Combloux, le Slovène a remis ça sur la 7e étape ce samedi, considérée comme l'étape reine avec 3 cols hors catégorie au menu (Madeleine, Croix de Fer et Valmenier 1800) et près de 5000 m de dénivelé. Encore une fois intouchable, le leader de la formation UAE Team Emirates XRG a enfoncé le clou et remis un sacré coup à tous ses adversaires en attaquant à 12 kilomètres de l'arrivée, relégant son dauphin Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) à une dizaine de secondes sans donner l'impression d'avoir forcé... et en relâchant même un peu dans le final. Mais contrairement à la veille, il n'a pas été suffisamment rapide pour assister à l'arrivée du Tour de Suisse Femmes. "Je ne suis pas arrivé à temps pour voir Urska Zigart (sa compagne (ndlr), c'est nul", a commencé par dire en rigolant Tadej Pogacar.

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00:00Today, well, you must be disappointed you didn't make it on time to see the finish of Ourska's race.

00:28Man, that sucks.

00:30But you must be a very happy man.

00:32However, yesterday you said that if the Dauphiné had finished, you would be already very happy.

00:37Today you hit even harder.

00:40Yeah, I mean, today we wanted to take control on all the climbs.

00:46But Wisma tried with all the attacks and I was pretty happy how Powell was riding today and the team.

00:56So yeah, it was sort of defense not to get attacked by everyone from Wisma.

01:03So I launched it and I maintained a good place to the top.

01:07So I was really happy that I could defend the jersey like this.

01:12You were never worried even when you were on your own and Wisma had four riders?

01:17I mean, they attacked towards the top of Lacroix-de-Faire.

01:24And then they actually, I think they want to drop me on the downhill.

01:30They went a little bit dangerous.

01:33First couple of kilometers on the down and I did not like that.

01:38But it's modern cycling.

01:41And then, yeah, when Powell came back, Powell took all the control again.

01:45It was all fine.

01:46And on the last climb, yeah, we just, Powell said that he cannot do much longer.

01:52And he prepared me for attack.

01:54And yeah, I just committed because I didn't want any attacks from behind.

02:00You gained, I believe, 18 seconds on Vingegor, much more on Lipovic and on Inevitable.

02:07Do you actually, at the end of the day, look at the performances of all your rivals or not really?

02:13I mean, for sure, today Jonas was really strong.

02:18But yeah, I always, I also didn't want to go too deep for myself.

02:23It was super hot and long, long climb.

02:26So yeah, luckily I had enough time to ease up the last kilometer a little bit and to recover.

02:33But of course, you look at the performances and, but you know that in the tour they can be even stronger.

02:39But also our team, we get two more climbers in the, in the team.

02:44So looking forward.

02:46Looking very good on the way of winning the Dauphiné.

02:50So far so good and let's survive tomorrow.

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