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On a mountain ascent, pain shows you who you are.

That's the reality.

And if you are able to push yourself to suffer

and sacrifice, then you might get a chance to win.

Today, the seventh stage of the Tour de France

between Tomblay and La Superplanche de Belphi.

And the first time at high altitude in the Vosges Mountains.

Today, stage seven.

It's supposed to be like 27 degrees.

It will be hot.

But it can't be.

Mega, mega steep.

How was your final day in yellow?

Painful.

There was definitely not how we hoped things would unfold.

Yeah.

Van

Aert is about to lose his yellow jersey to the reigning champion, Tadej Bagacar.

He's in a team that fully supports his mission.

There are no minor objectives within Team Emirates.

It's all about Bagacar.

And Bagacar gains his first victory in this year's Tour de France.

Tadej Bagacar wears the yellow jersey.

Bagacar has really shown he wants to stay king of the Tour.

But who can dethrone him?

Be ready that Bagacar wants to go for the stage again.

Most likely, there will be 20, 25 guys coming to the last kilometer.

And then it will explode there.

When we come to the mountains, you will see what suffering means and how hard it is.

But we truly believe that we are strong

enough as a team to compete on every terrain.

Good?

Yeah.

I'll take some too.

Yeah.

Jumbo-V is more desperate to win the Tour de France.

But they've had serious bad luck.

Roglic has had a crash.

Roglic has had a crash.

Roglic has had a crash.

Roglic has had a crash.

This is catastrophic for Jumbo-V.

The cobbles were a complete disaster.

Roglic was injured.

And all the pressure now falls solely upon the shoulders of his teammate,

Jonas Wengergaard, who has never won a stage in the Tour.

Fingego.

He doesn't realize how good he is.

And maybe he's starting to realize that.

But...

It's a guy, we say, if he sees his bike is

already riding fast, he doesn't have to train.

The goal is to win the Tour de France.

So it would be a disappointment for us to finish second again.

Of course, there's a nervousness.

But I'll just try to do my best and we'll see.

It's amazing to see my partner and daughter.

They support me the whole way.

I would never have been able to do this without them.

It's fantastic.

It's his first Tour de France.

It's all really exciting.

I started cycling because I was having kind of a hard time in playing football.

I was not so physical.

People were a bit hard on me.

Hi, Jonas.

Hello.

Here at celebration time?

Yes.

Funny moments?

Yes.

Ten seconds.

Okay.

Looking at the camera.

Yes.

Ever since I started cycling, I was dreaming of being

a professional cyclist and doing the Tour de France.

Okay.

But the first eight, nine years, I was actually not so good at cycling.

Living in Denmark is not the best place to be a good climber.

There's not a lot of mountains.

I was working at the fish factory.

Jonbo called my old sports director.

They were talking about another rider on the team that I was on.

And he said, maybe you have a look at Jonas.

He said I had some potential.

Of course, you have to dream.

But at that moment, yeah, no one knows what it can be.

Six, five, four, three, two, one.

It's the second stage of the Tour de France.

And the first test for the climbers as they reach high altitude for the first time.

The pace has been fast since the start of the stage.

Almost at the climb now.

Come on.

We fight there.

Come on.

You need to be there where it hurts and where the hectic is.

And not everybody is capable of doing that.

The yellow jersey.

It is the jersey everybody wants.

And there's Pogacar, the yellow jersey surrounded by his teammates.

He's so motivated.

When your legs are hurting, you have to keep riding.

Try to not think about the pain.

Try to ignore it.

Rafa Majka gives way as if to say to Pogacar, it's down to you now.

Come on, Primoz.

Jonas, fight.

How do you say it?

You also kind of like the pain.

Jonas, fight in the line now.

Come on.

Come on, Jonas.

We can do it.

Come on, come on.

We've reached the section with the steepest incline.

And Wengergaard attacks.

Wengergaard in the lead in front of Tadej Pogacar.

Chemna is about to be overtaken.

Yes, yes, yes.

Less than 50 meters to go.

Wengergaard still in the lead.

The yellow jersey right on his tail.

Come on, come on, come on.

Come on, Jonas.

Come on, Jonas.

Go, go, go.

One last push for Pogacar.

Trying to take the lead in the final meters.

Tadej Pogacar wins.

Fuck!

I actually thought I was going to win.

Yeah, I was feeling great.

But then in the end he just came with, I don't know, with 50 meters to go.

And I couldn't answer.

You went a little bit early.

Yeah, I went a little bit early.

But I didn't know that.

I mean, I thought I saw the sign 250 or 200.

I was like, okay, if I'm good, I'll try.

No, no, no, but join me.

Super fucking stupid.

Cycling as a whole is very psychological.

There isn't a kind of an ultra endurance sport that's at a

professional level like cycling, where it's also tactical.

Most ultra endurance sports are individual.

They're not team tactics.

You're not playing chess on the road.

It's war games, basically.

So far, Tadej Pogacar has no need to worry.

The last climb, I kind of liked it.

Enjoy the podium.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Pogacar's the clear favorite.

How can he be beaten?

That is definitely the question on everybody's lips.

No one has challenged his position at the top of the general classification.

When you wear the yellow jersey, you're in first place.

You're the leader, the captain.

You're king of the world.

But you're also everyone's target.

Pogacar sprints to break away from Jonas Vengergaard.

Tadej Pogacar easily holds on to his yellow jersey.

To beat Pogacar, you need to increase your suffering and your torture.

And you have to reach inside yourself and pull out everything you've got to somehow

destabilize him psychologically before going in for the kill.

Were you very impressed by the performance of Pogacar?

Yeah, of course, he looks strong.

But, yeah, I mean, I also believe in myself, and I believe my strength is in

the high mountains, so hopefully I can be up there with him.

Tadej Pogacar is king of the tour, but who can challenge him?

Vengergaard is weaker against the clock and not as good technically, and he's

never actually secured a major Grand Tour victory.

The only team that might benefit from this squabble is INEOS Grenadiers.

They're the most professional team, but on top of that, they have the biggest budget.

It's G.

Mate, I got a grand for that, I reckon.

What, mate?

What do you reckon?

I got a grand, maybe two grand for that on eBay immediately.

Do what you can, when you can, with what you've got.

That's all we ask.

Mandela said that.

It's quite cool, I think.

INEOS, it's like this massive bowling ball just rolling down the road that's just,

like, you know, smashing houses and cars to beat them.

You can't just stand in front of them and try to take them on head-on-head.

You have to, like, sneak around the back of the massive bowling ball and,

like, stick a dynamite underneath it or something.

You're right, Thomas is tough.

He has years of experience.

The top three is the general classification.

Garen Thomas, you've won the Tour de France.

I can't believe it.

It's insane.

Biggest emotion of your life?

Yeah.

Um...

The last time I cried was when I got married.

And, uh...

I don't know what's happened to me.

But, uh...

You've just won the Tour de France.

I still find it weird now.

If I think back to myself running home from school when I was

12, if you'd told me then that I'd actually win the Tour...

Yeah, I don't know what I'd do.

I'd definitely... I'd probably laugh, actually.

What are the plans of your team?

Try and, uh...

get right up there in the mix and get the best of it possible, basically.

Um...

A lot can happen.

So, uh... Yeah, we'll see what... We'll see what we do.

Geraint Thomas has won the Tour de France, sure.

But he's 36 now.

And to compete with all those rising stars who

are about ten years his junior will not be easy.

He's part of the older generation now.

I think a lot of people have been writing Geraint Thomas off.

Writing his career off.

He's not going to be a serious contender.

That he's not a realistic podium contender.

Geraint has a shot.

We've seen him do it before.

He's perhaps not the favorite.

But it's a bike race and anything can happen, you know.

Obviously, we'll have to try and reduce that gap to...

well, Jonas and Pogacar.

But, you know, there's a lot of other guys in the race as well.

You know, can't just get solely focused on them.

And...

You know, you get overtaken from behind as well.

So, it's just...

Yeah, take it as it comes.

See what we can do as a team.

As I've got older, I've sort of learned to...

take it a bit steady at times.

You know, I think the main thing I've learned is when to take the risks.

It's... I wouldn't say I take less.

My wife definitely doesn't think I take less.

You want to show where your ramps are?

Yeah?

They're this way.

They are this way, aren't they?

Yeah.

Going that way.

How do you feel watching racing?

I find it stressful.

And you've had your fair share of crashes.

Mm.

And there was one that kind of sticks out I was watching,

and you just basically went off the side of a cliff.

And I was actually working for S4C at the time, the Welsh language programme, and.

Yeah, I just... I started crying on it.

Because nobody knew what happened to you, did they?

So...

CHEERING

Since that point, I was like, I just can't... I can't really watch it.

So, yeah.

Yeah, it was a good crash, though, that one, because there was nothing wrong

with me, but it was really dramatic, and, like... You didn't have to play up to it.

Scrambling back up the side of the mountain.

Because, like, basically, there was this, like, netting thing that kind of stopped

me falling any further, which was pretty good, obviously.

To climb back up and then got back on my bike,

I only lost, like, 30-odd seconds or something.

Like, how fast do you go downhill?

Well, I do over 100k an hour sometimes.

So... Constantly, like, 80, 90k an hour, probably, on average.

One person makes a little mistake and...

..everybody's down.

So, yeah, I just... I'd rather...

Most wives I know, or girlfriends, they do watch it, whereas I'd just rather

find out, you'll text me at the end of the day, and if something's happened,

someone will let me know.

Yeah.

Yeah, come on, then.

Show me the way.

Gary Thomas, he is in the twilight of his career.

There's no doubt.

I mean, he's at that age, he's had a long career, he's had a great career.

He is the underdog.

Max, we go this way.

This does feel like the last chance saloon for him to prove himself and to show the

world what he is, because he is a great, great rider.

Today, it's the queen stage of the Tour de France in Iota.

Getting through the mountains in the Tour de France is obligatory.

Here you see who wants to win general classification

and who wants to win the Tour de France.

You have to enjoy suffering.

If you don't suffer, you won't progress.

Tadej Pogacar, looking strong in the yellow jersey.

This is his time to be able to exploit this very

obvious weakness that we're seeing within Jan Bovizme.

And then... The mountains are the perfect hunting ground for him.

I still think Pogacar is the strongest rider in the race, but it's probably the

best chance today for Jan Bovizme to try to play the team card to sort of dupe him.

Whether Jan Bovizme are actually aggressive

and confident enough to do that, I don't know.

I haven't seen that yet.

I hope all of you are ready for a really big day.

Stage 11, Albeville, Col du Granon.

It's super, super hard, especially the last seven and a half kilometres.

Most important, what we want to do, putting pressure

on UAE, make them work and attack the yellow jersey.

Jonas, you follow Pogacar and attack him in the final kilometres when he's worn out.

Hopefully today we really first kill his team and then get him to work.

That last climb will be so important.

So hard and so long will be very, very hard.

Cooling, hydration, nutrition will be crucial.

I don't think you can beat today Pogacar alone.

You definitely need your team.

To win a mountain stage, you always need help.

The plan is definitely to try and win the stage with Jonas.

I think for Jonas, if you stay with Pogacar,

really stay calm because the last climb is so hard.

You're always one step ahead if you're in his

wheel, you can still kill him on the last climb.

And tomorrow is still there.

Jonas is really a strong climber.

Not so many riders can maintain a high pace for five minutes or for ten minutes

uphill, you know, while climbing, which is

needed to create a gap and to maintain that gap.

That's his main weapon.

Good luck.

Thing is with stage 11, it's the sort of stage that

Tadej Pogacar will have seen and been excited about.

And that's what everyone's terrified about Tadej Pogacar because the more sadistic it

is, the more he looks forward to it because he is, as much as he's a

masochist, he's a sadist as well, the way he races.

To challenge him, we're going to have to do something that is courageous and also

it's going to be a roll of the dice because...

you don't want to poke the bear.

And Tadej Pogacar, if you poke him, he's going to react.

Pogacar is looking pretty amazing, but we are still quite close behind.

Today is D-Day and we have a chance and we want to attack Pogacar today.

Yeah, we have to go for it.

1-2-3, 1-2-3, hello everyone.

Testing radio tour, hello.

Back for today, big day.

And they've started the 11th stage, a stage full of dangers with four climbs

and perhaps the toughest pass of the 2022 Tour de France.

Telegrave, Galévié and Granoff.

151 kilometres in total.

If you had to sum up the nature of today in one sentence, what would it be?

Welcome to hell.

And this is the Laissez-de-Montvernier Ascent.

The peloton is still being led by the UAE Emirates riders, Tadej Pogacar,

the yellow jersey team.

We must relax for a little bit.

We must relax.

It's really up to you.

Follow your instinct and let the others know what you do.

When I interviewed Pogacar, I asked him, if you were a Jumbo Visma rider,

how would you attack Tadej Pogacar?

He said, I wouldn't attack him.

I suspect Jumbo may try to anticipate the race a little bit earlier than the final.

So we need to be ready on Telegrave.

The yellow jersey peloton reaches the top of the Col de Telegrave.

Attack of Primoz Roglic.

And Primoz Roglic accelerates on the descent.

Come on, now we try, eh?

Now we try.

The goal is to isolate Pogacar from his team.

We want to keep Pogacar by himself and really try to make him use extra energy.

Pogacar, the yellow jersey, because he asked for support on the radio,

he's isolated, trapped between three Jumbo Visma riders.

You are with four guys with Pogacar, eh?

Also Thomas is there.

Everybody else dropped for the moment.

Five riders, five riders on the descent.

Three Jumbo Visma riders, including Roglic, Pogacar, the yellow jersey,

and Geraint Thomas.

Tadej Pogacar looks around, just 59 kilometers from the finish line.

He's got no teammates at his side.

Pogacar, he will not give up and settle for second

because he is trying to keep the yellow jersey.

So I think tiring out Pogacar is our best option.

Jonas Wengergaard attacks.

Geraint Thomas fights his way back.

If your opponent is alone, then you can start attacking one after the other.

Geraint Thomas giving the space.

And attack now from Roglic.

Pogacar straight away onto the wheel.

Another attack of Roglic.

Jumbo Visma are trying to rip this Tour de France apart.

Pogacar goes across.

There he goes.

And he says, right, if you're going to try and get

rid of me, then I'm going to rip your legs off.

Tadej Pogacar attacks hard, tries to get rid

of Roglic, tries to get rid of Wengergaard.

He may well have got rid of Pogacar, but

Geraint Thomas, who is hauling his way back.

Wengergaard gets ready.

He's on the wheel.

And we're not even halfway up the Col de Colibier.

Races aren't only won like a marathon.

You have to have the pain tolerance of a marathon runner.

But then you also have to be lucid enough, because

this isn't a sport of just pushing yourself.

This is also a chess game on wheels.

You have to be reading the race.

Should I save my energy for the next hill, or is this the hill?

You have to be constantly thinking.

And you've got to be absolutely willing to risk everything.

It's Jonas Wengergaard's turn to attack.

Tadej Pogacar makes the effort to catch.

Back up to Wengergaard.

Geraint Thomas on his wheel.

They are neck and neck.

It's been years since we've seen anything like this on the Tour de France.

Primoz Roglic accelerates.

One after the other, the Jumbo Beastman riders try to destabilize Pogacar.

This is really hurting him.

Doing a great, great job.

Come on, Jonas.

Primoz, come on.

For now, Pogacar is holding his own.

But for how long will he be able to stand up,

against the relentless attacks of Jumbo Beastman?

Just like when a boxer gets hit and you can see him wavering.

When you're in that situation, bizarrely, you don't feel tired.

You just want to finish it.

You just want to, well, go after him and keep going until you knock him out.

Punish him.

It's exactly the same in cycling.

Take a water.

Take a water, eh?

You must take a water.

Good job.

Take a shower.

Take a shower.

Eh?

Ice.

Ice, Jonas.

Ice, Jonas.

Ice, Jonas.

Give me water.

No, Poggy was begging for water.

Poggy was begging for water, eh?

You really have him under pressure now.

You really have him under pressure now.

Cycling over the Alps is some of the most gruelling

The mountains are hellish, it's slow, it's long, it's hard.

You're suffering through the whole race, and at times it feels never-ending.

To win in the mountains, the bottom line is,

you've got to be one of the best climbers.

That's no mean feat.

The Yellow Jersey group is regrouping on the descent.

Pogacar needs to gather his strength before the day's final ascent.

The Col de Granon, a climb that is certain to be brutal.

The highest finish in this 2022 Tour.

An altitude of over 7,800 feet.

A deceptive reprieve on this highly challenging stage.

We have the Telegraph, the Galibier, with

the terrible Col de Granon to wrap it all up.

In

the mountains, you discover some kind of new feelings.

You have to be physically super ready.

Primoz Roglic takes the lead from the start of the Col de Granon climb.

The 10 toughest kilometers of the Tour de France 2022 have begun.

Suffering is unavoidable.

It's at cycling's very heart.

You have to suffer, and you have to be able to endure what other people can't.

Looks like Primoz Roglic is in difficulty.

He seems to be in trouble.

He's falling behind.

Roglic has dropped now.

Primoz Roglic has dropped from the yellow jersey group now.

Pogacar and Wengergaard are now head-to-head.

You have to try to find your competitors' weaknesses.

I know when Tadej is feeling good, maybe he is suffering.

He doesn't look good, eh?

Pogacar looks like shit.

Come on, Jonas.

You can do it.

There's a steeper spot now.

And it's really hard all the way from here to the finish.

Come on.

This is my chance.

And now I just have to go flat out to the finish line.

And another attack by Jonas Wengergaard.

The Danish rider turns to look.

Pogacar can't respond.

The yellow jersey is on the ropes.

Come on, Jonas.

Come on.

Pogacar is not reacting.

Pogacar is not reacting.

He's not reacting.

Come on.

You're the best, eh?

Wengergaard widens the gap.

What are they up to?

Wengergaard already has a 39-second lead over Pogacar.

Pogacar doesn't have the strength to respond to this attack.

And the yellow jersey can't match the acceleration of Thomas.

I've been able to perform at altitude.

It's one of the key things when it comes to winning the tour.

It's just if you can put up with the pain.

Alone at the front.

Wengergaard is going through so much pain to try

and secure the yellow jersey for the first time.

The red zone is really simple.

Because it's the zone you go into when your body has just had it.

It burns.

You're out of breath.

Your brain is telling you to stop.

But you just have to ignore all that.

And push past it.

And just keep going.

Do not stop.

Your head hurts.

Your neck hurts.

Then there's the psychological pain.

The mental pain.

I have to keep fighting.

To keep believing in myself.

Don't be afraid of the pain.

Keep pushing yourself.

It's Jonas Wengergaard's day of glory as he wins the stage and the yellow jersey.

And Geraint Thomas crosses the finish line.

Tadej Pogacar is in trouble.

He's lost close to three minutes on the Col de Grande on a set.

This is what I dreamt of.

Stayed in the Tour and now the yellow jersey is incredible.

For Jonas it was amazing.

That was the moment where we thought, OK, this might really happen.

We might be able to beat Pogacar and win the Tour de France.

It's very emotional to take the stage.

I won it for my family.

For my girlfriend and for my daughter.

It's hard to get oil.

You always lose.

Yeah.

Obviously, Jumbo were on one today.

They had numbers.

They used it.

And we expected it.

But, whoa.

Hey, mate.

What a ride.

Thanks.

Congrats.

Thanks, Judo.

To beat Thierry Pogacar on stage 11, you're going to have to do something very special.

And that's exactly what Jumbo Visma did.

And not just Jonas Fingegaard, but what the team did.

It was perfect.

We made a plan from the start of the day and we wanted to make it super hard.

But I would never have done that without my teammates.

I really have to thank all of them.

They were all incredible, strong today.

And I would never have done this without them.

The yellow jersey is something to strive for in the Tour.

And if you achieve that, it brings joy to the

team and it's a thing you can be proud of.

But if you stay on that cloud of victory too long, the next day is a disaster.

The peloton is cruel.

It doesn't wait for you.

The peloton continues.

And if you can't keep up, it will leave you.

I just didn't expect that.

What do you mean?

Cracking like that.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Same can happen to Fingegaard.

They just snap him at some point.

Jonas Fingegaard is the new Tour de France leader.

How long will he hold on to the yellow jersey?

Winning the Alpe d'Huez is every rider's dream.

Sometimes you want those younger riders given that opportunity.

American winner on top of Alpe d'Huez.

That's prime time, baby.

This is going to finally be the stage where I can do it.

A rider has pulled away from the peloton.

He's descending at extreme speed.

The goal is to win the Tour de France.

There's a crash.

They're in the pack.

One of the main domestiques of Jonas

Fingegaard has abandoned the Tour de France.

Fucking cold.