Old roads, old scores
Some stages come with a grudge attached. In 2024, on these exact Cantal roads to Le Lioran, Jonas Vingegaard cracked Tadej Pogačar in one of the great head-to-heads of the modern Tour. Pogačar didn't forget — he said as much before the stage. On Bastille Day, on stage 10, he collected.
The move came on the Col de Pertus — 4.4 km at 8.5%, the steepest ramp of the day. Pogačar attacked, caught and passed the remnants of the break including Richard Carapaz, and rode the final climbs of the Massif Central alone. Behind him, the podium fight splintered.
The gaps that matter
Remco Evenepoel led the chase home 32 seconds down, with 19-year-old Paul Seixas two seconds further back — another statement ride from the young Frenchman on his national holiday. But the day's biggest loser was Isaac del Toro, who started the stage third overall and cracked out of the podium places entirely.
Jonas Vingegaard, the man who owned this finish two years ago, conceded another 44 seconds. The yellow-jersey picture after ten stages: Pogačar leads Vingegaard by 3′36″, with Evenepoel third at 4′06″ — his third stage win of this Tour, and the kind that echoes.
Full standings, stage profiles and every result so far are on the Tour tracker. Next up when the road tilts again: the Vosges on stage 13 and 14.
