🎥 “You got to love Pogacar”: Tour de France leader steals the show with playful teasing and African kids
CyclingFriday, 11 July 2025 at 18:30
After stage seven on the Mûr de Bretagne, the talk of the town was of course mainly about Tadej Pogacar’s stage win and reclaiming the yellow jersey. But the Slovenian rider from UAE Team Emirates-XRG stole the show on many other occasions on Friday. Before, during, and after the stage, Pogi was busy with fans, cracking jokes on the bike, and offering comforting words after a perhaps slightly heated discussion with Visma | Lease a Bike.
Pogacar started stage seven of the Tour still without the yellow jersey, having lost it the day before to Mathieu van der Poel by exactly one second. But in his rainbow jersey as world champion, the three-time Tour winner was clearly enjoying himself, as shown by a classic prank he pulled on Tudor team leader and former UAE teammate Marc Hirschi. The Swiss rider fell for it completely.
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Pogacar poses for a photo with 13 African riders
After securing the stage win and the yellow jersey on Friday afternoon, the celebrations could begin. Pogacar celebrated with 13 African cyclists, who joined him on the podium as a tribute to African cycling. First, they were allowed to ride the local circuit of the stage, and at the finish they got a photo with Pogacar as well as his winner’s flowers. For one of the riders, it even brought a tear to his eye.
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- Maybe I was a bit disrespectful to Heiden. What he did was unique and exceptional but he wasn't the only one who combined those distances, nowadays it is just not possible and nobody competes in both distances. The same is true for cycling with for example the combination of Roubaix and de Tour de France. In Merckx era there were more riders who managed a top10 in both races than currently.Joostmehrtens19-06-2025
- Two old men shouting at pigeons in the park…JonS16-06-2025
- Out of touch old men hankering after their youth through rose tinted spectacles, their arrogance almost outshines their irrelevance. Turn the volume down, this modern stuff just isn't music like we used to sing...johnny20whales16-06-2025
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- They wouldn't have dropped HIM so easily.... the GOAT. They would have dropped the rest from that era easily thoughVeganpotter16-06-2025
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- Carapaz is full of it. He is absolutely irrelevant after a rant at del Toro. Isaac had no obligations to do anything for Carapaz. It should remind one of the saying that goes lke this: "If I jump off the bridge, are you going to jump too?" If Caapaz wanted to win the Giro he should have chased Yates with or without Isaac. And if del Toro could follow, then so be it. But it was Carapaz's choice to slow down and stare at Isaac. Isaac was on the radio at times and you can bet he was being told by the Team car to do just what he was doing. Did I like that he didn't set out after Yates himself, NO. But the 21 year old was probably being instructed to do what he did, otherwise you can bet we would have heard from UAE mgmt. that Isaac chose to ignore their orders. But what we did hear was they were happy with his result. Which I think was a terrible betrayal of their young rider, who I think was capable of more than that penultimate stage showed. The Giro finished on a truly sour note as far as I'm concerned, because it was not "raced" The most crucial stage of the whole 21 stage race was simply given away, playing games with the unwritten rules of bicycle racing. "Leaders jerseys responsibility" and all that nonsense. Just RACE! It was disgraceful.
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- This is just mean-spirited.agnessk29-05-2025