Tadej Pogacar also wins the time trial and continues to strengthen his leadership in the Tour

If there was any doubt after yesterday's stage that the Tour de France is practically decided, Tadej Pogacar has taken care of dispelling them in the peculiar time trial climb to Peyragudes that the cyclists had to face in the 13th stage. A day that leaves us with the image of Remco Evenepoel being overtaken, almost at the same finish line, by a huge Jonas Vingegaard who, despite everything, does not give up.

The general classification of the Tour de France even more clarified after the time trial climb to Peyragudes

Tadej Pogacar now has 4 stages in this Tour de France. A new triumph that makes him more leader after the 11-kilometer time trial climb scheduled for the 13th stage of the Tour de France 2025.

A time trial in which, what was most talked about in its preliminaries was what would be the choice of material to face the stage by each of the favorites. Finally, the cyclists equipped by Specialized, Roglic, Lipowitz, and Evenepoel, living up to the brand's motto "Aero is everything," started with the Shiv time trial bike, with Lipowitz using a curious combination of this bike with the Roval Alpinist CLX wheels, the lightest wheel model from the Californian brand.

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On the other hand, Jonas Vingegaard also opted for the time trial model, also with the peculiar space helmet that he usually uses in this discipline. The only difference from a flat time trial was in wheels with a more contained profile. Finally, Tadej Pogacar brought out the Colnago V5Rs today, the lightweight model from the Italian brand in a lightened version to the limit: unpainted carbon, without bottle cages, and not even handlebar tape, just a few turns of insulating tape.

With this scenario, the first part of the time trial passed with little interest, with many cyclists simply looking to recover from yesterday's stage, something made easier thanks to the news that was known just before the start where the organization announced an extension of the time limit for this stage.

And in this scenario, it was Luke Plapp, as in the flat time trial, who put the most interest into it, setting a spectacular time of 24:58 that would place him in the hot seat until the arrival of the favorites. However, after starting their participation, Matteo Jorgenson would be the first to beat his split times, although the Visma-Lease a Bike rider would find the final part long and would not manage to surpass the Australian by just 5 seconds.

We had to wait for the arrival of Primoz Roglic, who today remembered the combative Roglic we know and who, from the start, was beating the records until dethroning the Jayco-AlUla cyclist by 37''. Despite showing more strength yesterday, his teammate Florian Lipowitz could not improve the Slovenian's time, conceding 36 seconds at the finish.

As for the three monsters, Remco Evenepoel started with a lot of strength and in the initial flat section managed to, as it could not be otherwise, beat Roglic's reference. Vingegaard was just a couple of seconds behind. A logical result considering it was the most advantageous section for their time trial bikes. However, Tadej Pogacar's arrival shattered any calculations of performance engineers by improving the Belgian's time by 5 seconds.

From there, there would be no competition, although Jonas Vingegaard's time trial must be praised for keeping the differences with Tadej Pogacar contained, going faster with each kilometer while Remco Evenepoel began to struggle, especially when he had some problems with his gears. A situation that ended in a dramatic outcome for the Soudal-QuickStep cyclist when Jonas Vingegaard began to see him and, in the 300 tough final meters of the Peyragudes climb, managed to reach and overtake him almost on the same finish line. Obviously, this allowed Jonas Vingegaard to take the lead in the stage, although his joy would last very little as he had barely crossed the finish line when he saw Tadej Pogacar facing the final ramp, who would improve the Danish's time by 36 seconds.

Classification Stage 13

1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 23’00’’
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +36’’
3. Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +1’20’’
4. Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +1’56’’
5. Luke Plapp (Jayco-AlUla) +1’58’’
6. Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) +2’02’’
7. Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL) +2’06’’
8. Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +2’15’’
9. Lenny Martínez (Bahrain-Victorious) +2’21’’
10. Felix Gall (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) 2’22’’

Overall Standings

1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 45h45’51’’
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +4’07’’
3. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) +7’24’’
4. Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +7’30’’
5. Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL) +8’11’’
6. Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) +8’15’’
7. Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +8’50’’
8. Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) +10’36’’
9. Felix Gall (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) +11’43’’
10. Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) +14’15’’