Well, it was another uphill Sprint for Taday Pogachar.
The Slovenian cyclist surged to the lead in the second
to last flag of the Tour de France this Saturday,
the 5th stage he's won in this year's race already.
A2 time champion Pogachar has an over 5 minute lead
ahead of his closest rival, defending champion Yonas Vinegar.
The final stage on Sunday we'll see riders do individual
time trials between Monaco and Nice.
The first time in the Tour de France's history that
it's not ending in Paris due to the upcoming Olympics.
Well, for more, we can cross now to our sports
editor James Vecina, who's been following the cyclists for us.
James, walk us through the action in today's race.
Well, look, Allison, we had six groups from the starter
making their separate ways up to here to the Gudala
Kuyolim, what is the last mountain stage on this year's
Tour de force?
The first group which consisted of the likes of Enrique
Mass but also Richard Carapaz trying to make their way
first to the summit over here.
Well, all of that ended for them within the last
climb.
The final climber right up to here, which then saw
the yellow jersey, the yellow Juddies group, Sotalia Pogachas group
managed to catch up with them in the final climb.
Talley Pogachar then who managed to grab hold of them.
And in the end, we saw the current 3 leaders,
Talley Pogachar, Jonas Vinegar M Remco Event Pool make their
way all three up towards the up towards the top.
Just here at the top of the good Director Cuyola
and some Tally Pogachar, who in the end, yes, as
you mentioned there went for that race, raced his closest
rival at the very top in the last few 100
meters to be able to win another stage, a fifth
stage.
He crossed the finishing line with a high five to
celebrate that 5th win on this year's sort of pass.
Also like the 5 minutes that he holds over his
closest rival.
Second place, then vinegar and a distance which is pretty
much guaranteed to keep tomorrow as they set off from
Monaco.
I was going to ask James, given that hugely.
Do any of his competitors still stand a chance or
what?
What are we going to be looking for tomorrow now
that they stand no chance at all?
Because put it this way, Pogusjar had said today that
he'd be taking things easily.
Well, I think in Slovenian that must probably translate as
winning the stage.
So either either either we he's unpredictable or you can't
trust him when he says that he's going to be
taking things just nice and slowly because he wants to
win and by a margin he's doing that every single
time.
Tomorrow then it's going to be a time trial.
So different story for him.
He'll be keeping that lead over there, but it'll be
chance chance for possibly for the Belgian, the 3rd place
Belgian to perhaps if he can try and squeeze these
pass vineyard guards to finish second on the podium in
the general classification.
That will all depend on tomorrow's race.
It goes from Monaco all the way to Nice, so
finishing along the coast, but that's one in which the
Belgian has excelled so far.
He's won the 1st a few weeks ago on the
tour, but that is basically what we're going to see
tomorrow.
We're also going to be seeing the jerseys that we
know have been won be confirmed so long as all
of the riders managed to complete the case, complete the
race nice and calmly.
That would be yellow jersey that with the Pokerjot King
of the mountains, 44 caps there, who he manages to
get that win from today.
But then also there's a Binyam Gimme also who's expected
to go home with that Sprint jersey, the nice green
one for him as he's made also had a very,
very big impact on this year's tour.
All of that then to come tomorrow.
But yes, don't trust poker child because he's he's, he's
out for a win and he wants to win by
a by a large, large margin.
I guess it's still worth tuning in tomorrow to see
him kind of crowned for his victory.
James, thank you so much for that update.
That's our sports editor there, James Messina reporting from the
French Alps tomorrow.
He will of course, be in Nice, bringing us all
the latest on the final stage of the Tour de
France.