Pogacar attacks ⁠on steepest climb to clinch another ⁠Tour de France stage win

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Tadej Pogacar celebrates after winning the 14th stage of the Tour de France
Tadej Pogacar celebrates after winning the 14th stage of the Tour de France. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AFP/Getty Images

A fourth ‌stage win for the Slovene leaves him 4min 30sec ahead of Jonas Vingegaard while Paul Seixas took the lead in the young rider’s classification

Tadej Pogacar’s rapacious appetite for stage wins was in evidence yet again in the climbs of the Vosges, as he raced to his fourth victory of this year’s Tour de France at Le Markstein.

Pogacar’s attack came 1.6 kilometres from the summit of the final climb, the Col de Haag and 7.5 kilometres from the finish line and left Jonas Vingegaard, Paul Seixas and Florian Lipowitz in his wake.

But Seixas, a discreet presence since the opening weekend in Montjuic, matched Vingegaard on the rolling descent to the finish line, before dropping the double winner on the sprint to the finish and taking the lead in the young rider’s classification.