Tadej Pogacar continues to lead the race ahead of the weekend stages in the Pyrenees
Belgium's Jasper Philipsen comes home to win the 13th stage of the Tour de France between Agen and Pau. Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Imagesin Pau after a spate of failed attacks in the final kilometres paved the way for yet another dash to the line. The Belgian avoided a nasty crash in the final kilometre to hold off Jonas Vingegaard’s Visma Lease-a-bike team-mate Wout Van Aert in the Place de Verdun.
In the final stage before the Tour enters the Pyrenees for back-to-back summit finishes on Saturday and Sunday, the sprinters and their teams had been expected to dominate the race, but that was far from the case as average speeds close to 50km/h, allied to volatile conditions, combined to fracture the peloton on several occasions.
After crashes on consecutive stages, Roglic, second overall in the 2020 Tour, did not start the Tour’s 13th stage. The Slovenian had slipped to sixth overall after crashing on Thursday and his team said he quit the Tour to focus on “future goals”. As Cavendish had suggested on Thursday morning, Covid-19 is once more stalking the peloton and Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates squad was significantly weakened after one of his key climbing lieutenants, Juan Ayuso, quit the race due to the virus.
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