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Pogacar won six stages as he reclaimed the Tour title from two-time winner Vingegaard last year and is now up to 21 in total.<\/p>\n
He is now sixth on the all-time list, with Sir Mark Cavendish having set the record of 35 last year, and there are still eight stages remaining on this year’s edition.<\/p>\n
“I’m super happy,” said Pogacar. “This time trial was quite a big question mark already in December for me. I wanted everything to be perfect.<\/p>\n
“I was really targeting to go from start to finish all out and tried to smash it as much as possible on the pedals.<\/p>\n
“I almost blew up in the end but I saw the timer at the top and it gave me an extra push because I saw that I was going to win.”<\/p>\n
Australian time-trial champion Luke Plapp set an early benchmark and his time stood for most of the day as riders struggled on the punishing finish.<\/p>\n
The 8km climb to the line had an average gradient of 7.8% but the final 300m were 16%.<\/p>\n
The riders were sent off at two-minute intervals, and after shipping 2mins 10secs to Pogacar on Thursday, Vingegaard managed to catch Evenepoel 50m from the line.<\/p>\n
“Yesterday was probably one of my worst performances but today was one of my best so it’s nice to come back like this,” said the Dane.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard and Evenepoel were among a handful of riders that chose to go with adapted time-trial bikes but Pogacar, who opted for a road bike, was quickest at each of the two time-checks before powering up the final section.<\/p>\n
After a gruelling mountain stage on Thursday, the peloton is set for another on Saturday along a 182.6km route from Pau to a summit finish at Luchon-Superbagneres.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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