“I dropped, I died”: the failure of Pogacar in the Col de la Loze seals the outcome of the Tour 2023

2023-07-19 21:20:36

And suddenly, the bitumen of the Col de la Loze, this wall of pain, turned into salt water. And the route du Tour has become an ocean where a solitary navigator had just triggered his distress beacon. “I gave up, I died”, launched Tadej Pogacar in his headset seven kilometers from the summit. The body of the Slovenian then continued to float, tossed about by waves of fatigue, until the finish.