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After splitting from the leading group, Vauquelin won his first Grand Tour stage for Arkea-B&B Hotels. Pogacar, riding for UAE Team Emirates, overtook his main challenger and last year’s winner, Jonas Vingegaard, when he led the way on the final climb of the 199.2km stage to Bologna, Italy.

Pogacar and Vingegaard, who rides for Team Visma-Lease a Bike, crossed the finish line together, but Pogacar’s better stage result earned him the yellow jersey.

When asked if he wanted to go for the stage win, Pogacar said: “No, because the breakaway was too hard and in this weather, this heat, it would be unnecessary to kill my teammates. We just left it to the natural selection and that’s how it happened in the end. Certainly, going for the stage win could have backfired, so we decided to be calmer and calmer, but in the final I tried to test myself.”

Pogacar and Vingegaard, who have won the last four La Grande Boucle races together, had the same overall time as Richard Carapaz of Ecuador and Remco Evenepoel of Belgium.

Perhaps the unluckiest rider of the day was Primoz Roglic, who crossed the finish line in a group of 19 overall, 21 seconds behind Pogacar and Vingegaard.